fax
/ˈfaks/
The verdict
“fax” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,370) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,370
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 853
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - aparelho transmissor e receptor de documentos em fac-símile
Corpus desk
Index PT-fax · fax · Portuguese
fax · rank #14,370 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,370
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 853
- PHOTO-FINISH explicitamente
Nearest frequency peer: explicitamente (-2 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 “fax”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- escorpião
escorpião
85,641 corpus weight
- explicitame…
explicitamente
85,633 corpus weight
- fax
fax
85,631 corpus weight
- Florença
Florença
85,626 corpus weight
- fluir
fluir
85,624 corpus weight
- furar
furar
85,623 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “fax” 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 | fax |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈfaks/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #14,370 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “fax”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for fax is neighbouring look-alikes ("FC", "foi", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈfaks/. Frequency #14,370 among 853 “F” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
fax doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "FC", "foi", "fez", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is fax, spelled F-A-X.
Definition
- 1aparelho transmissor e receptor de documentos em fac-símile
- 2o próprio documento enviado ou recebido por esse meio
Synonyms
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).