ETA
/ˈɛː.ta/
The verdict
“ETA” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #18,862) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #18,862
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Euskadi Ta Askatasuna ("Pátria Basca e Liberdade"), organização paramilitar que defende a independência do País Basco em relação à Espanha.
Corpus desk
Index PT-eta · ETA · Portuguese
ETA · rank #18,862 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,862
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH esvaziar
Nearest frequency peer: esvaziar (-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 “ETA”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- esclarecido
esclarecido
81,149 corpus weight
- escombros
escombros
81,148 corpus weight
- esvaziar
esvaziar
81,140 corpus weight
- ETA
ETA
81,139 corpus weight
- eólica
eólica
81,133 corpus weight
- falecer
falecer
81,131 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “ETA” 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 | ETA |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | /ˈɛː.ta/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #18,862 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “ETA”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ETA is neighbouring look-alikes ("eu", "ev", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced /ˈɛː.ta/. Frequency #18,862 among 1,279 “E” headwords. Gloss: "Euskadi Ta Askatasuna ("Pátria Basca e Liberdade"), organização paramilitar que defende a independência do País Basco em relação à Espanha.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for ETA in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "eu", "ev", "Eva", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is ETA, spelled E-T-A.
Definition
- 1Euskadi Ta Askatasuna ("Pátria Basca e Liberdade"), organização paramilitar que defende a independência do País Basco em relação à Espanha.
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.
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