eh
/ɛ/
The verdict
“eh” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #4,723) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #4,723
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - expressa dúvida sobre o que está sendo dito
Corpus desk
Index PT-eh · eh · Portuguese
eh · rank #4,723 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,723
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH espacial
Nearest frequency peer: espacial (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “eh”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- definido
definido
95,282 corpus weight
- doação
doação
95,280 corpus weight
- eh
eh
95,278 corpus weight
- espacial
espacial
95,277 corpus weight
- exercer
exercer
95,275 corpus weight
- feio
feio
95,274 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “eh” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | eh |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | /ɛ/ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #4,723 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “eh”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for eh is neighbouring look-alikes ("em", "eu", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced /ɛ/. Frequency #4,723 among 1,279 “E” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Zero misspellings are on record for eh in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "em", "eu", "el", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is eh, spelled E-H.
Definition
- 1expressa dúvida sobre o que está sendo dito
- 2o mesmo que é
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.