en
/n̩, eːn/
The verdict
“en” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #1,922) as an article. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #1,922
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - um, uma
Corpus desk
Index PT-en · en · Portuguese
en · rank #1,922 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,922
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH dom
Nearest frequency peer: dom (-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 “en”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- conferência
conferência
98,084 corpus weight
- discutir
discutir
98,081 corpus weight
- dom
dom
98,080 corpus weight
- en
en
98,079 corpus weight
- esforço
esforço
98,077 corpus weight
- excelente
excelente
98,075 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “en” 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 | en |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Article |
| IPA | /n̩, eːn/ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #1,922 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “en”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for en is neighbouring look-alikes ("eu", "es", …), not just typos; it is anarticle pronounced /n̩, eːn/. Frequency #1,922 among 1,279 “E” headwords. Gloss: "um, uma".
No generated misspelling entries exist for en in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "eu", "es", "et", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is en, spelled E-N.
Definition
- 1um, uma
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how en appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En Fraa lachd.
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.