fit
The verdict
“fit” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #21,187) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #21,187
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 853
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - em boa forma
Corpus desk
Index PT-fit · fit · Portuguese
fit · rank #21,187 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,187
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 853
- PHOTO-FINISH foragido
Nearest frequency peer: foragido (+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 “fit”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- feras
feras
78,819 corpus weight
- fermentação
fermentação
78,818 corpus weight
- fit
fit
78,814 corpus weight
- foragido
foragido
78,811 corpus weight
- frescura
frescura
78,806 corpus weight
- glory
glory
78,804 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “fit” 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 | fit |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #21,187 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “fit”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for fit is neighbouring look-alikes ("foi", "for", …), not just typos; it is anadjective. Frequency #21,187 among 853 “F” headwords. Gloss: "em boa forma".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for fit, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "foi", "for", "fui", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is fit, spelled F-I-T.
Definition
- 1em boa forma
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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