ets
/ˈeʦ/
The verdict
“ets” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #34,703) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #34,703
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - segunda pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo ésser
Corpus desk
Index PT-ets · ets · Portuguese
ets · rank #34,703 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,703
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH exclamação
Nearest frequency peer: exclamação (+4 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 “ets”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- escrivaninha
escrivaninha
65,305 corpus weight
- esnobe
esnobe
65,303 corpus weight
- ets
ets
65,298 corpus weight
- exclamação
exclamação
65,294 corpus weight
- facilitação
facilitação
65,289 corpus weight
- feno
feno
65,287 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “ets” 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 | ets |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈeʦ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #34,703 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “ets”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ets is neighbouring look-alikes ("eu", "ev", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced /ˈeʦ/. Frequency #34,703 among 1,279 “E” headwords. Gloss: "segunda pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo ésser".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ets, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "eu", "ev", "Eva", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is ets, spelled E-T-S.
Definition
- 1segunda pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo ésser
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).