es
/'ɛs/ ouvir ^(fonte ?)
The verdict
“es” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #2,631) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #2,631
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ele, ela, aquilo, pronome da terceira pessoa do neutro singular do caso nominativo.
Corpus desk
Index PT-es · es · Portuguese
es · rank #2,631 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,631
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH entrega
Nearest frequency peer: entrega (-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 “es”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- cento
cento
97,381 corpus weight
- conclusão
conclusão
97,377 corpus weight
- ei
ei
97,372 corpus weight
- entrega
entrega
97,371 corpus weight
- es
es
97,370 corpus weight
- exploração
exploração
97,366 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “es” 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 | es |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | /'ɛs/ ouvir ^(fonte ?) |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #2,631 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “es”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for es is neighbouring look-alikes ("eu", "et", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced /'ɛs/ ouvir ^(fonte ?). Frequency #2,631 among 1,279 “E” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for es, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "eu", "et", "ev", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is es, spelled E-S.
Definition
- 1ele, ela, aquilo, pronome da terceira pessoa do neutro singular do caso nominativo.
- 2ele, ela, aquilo, pronome da terceira pessoa do neutro singular do caso acusativo.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how es appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Das Fleisch schmeckt nicht. Es ist zu fett.
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.