er
The verdict
“er” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #11,866) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #11,866
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ele, aquele, aquilo, terceira pessoa do masculino singular do caso nominativo
Corpus desk
Index PT-er · er · Portuguese
er · rank #11,866 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,866
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH distrital
Nearest frequency peer: distrital (-8 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 “er”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- detrimento
detrimento
88,147 corpus weight
- dispor
dispor
88,145 corpus weight
- disseminação
disseminação
88,144 corpus weight
- distrital
distrital
88,143 corpus weight
- er
er
88,135 corpus weight
- feel
feel
88,124 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “er” 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 | er |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #11,866 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “er”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for er is neighbouring look-alikes ("eu", "es", …), not just typos; it is apronoun. Frequency #11,866 among 1,279 “E” headwords. Gloss: "ele, aquele, aquilo, terceira pessoa do masculino singular do caso nominativo".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for er, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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 headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is er, spelled E-R.
Definition
- 1ele, aquele, aquilo, terceira pessoa do masculino singular do caso nominativo
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how er appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wo ist er her?
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.