few
The verdict
“few” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #38,283) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #38,283
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 853
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - pouco; poucos
Corpus desk
Index PT-few · few · Portuguese
few · rank #38,283 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,283
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 853
- PHOTO-FINISH fisco
Nearest frequency peer: fisco (+3 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 “few”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- exposed
exposed
61,725 corpus weight
- extremismo
extremismo
61,724 corpus weight
- few
few
61,718 corpus weight
- fisco
fisco
61,715 corpus weight
- flesh
flesh
61,713 corpus weight
- fluorescente
fluorescente
61,711 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “few” 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 | few |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #38,283 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “few”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for few is neighbouring look-alikes ("foi", "fez", …), not just typos; it is anadjective. Frequency #38,283 among 853 “F” headwords. Gloss: "pouco; poucos".
few doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "foi", "fez", "for", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 few, spelled F-E-W.
Definition
- 1pouco; poucos
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how few appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
There are few people who understand quantum theory.
Antonyms
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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