flo
/floː/
The verdict
“flo” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #26,750) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #26,750
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 853
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - respirar.
Corpus desk
Index PT-flo · flo · Portuguese
flo · rank #26,750 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,750
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 853
- PHOTO-FINISH fighter
Nearest frequency peer: fighter (-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 “flo”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- ev
ev
73,261 corpus weight
- fervor
fervor
73,256 corpus weight
- fiação
fiação
73,255 corpus weight
- fighter
fighter
73,254 corpus weight
- flo
flo
73,251 corpus weight
- fragrância
fragrância
73,246 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “flo” 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 | flo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /floː/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #26,750 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “flo”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for flo is neighbouring look-alikes ("foi", "for", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced /floː/. Frequency #26,750 among 853 “F” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for flo in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. 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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is flo, spelled F-L-O.
Definition
- 1respirar.
- 2soprar.
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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).