fun
/fʌn/
The verdict
“fun” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #16,068) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #16,068
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 853
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - divertido
Corpus desk
Index PT-fun · fun · Portuguese
fun · rank #16,068 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,068
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 853
- PHOTO-FINISH genuíno
Nearest frequency peer: genuíno (+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 “fun”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- extermínio
extermínio
83,944 corpus weight
- fenda
fenda
83,941 corpus weight
- fun
fun
83,933 corpus weight
- genuíno
genuíno
83,930 corpus weight
- going
going
83,926 corpus weight
- guarnição
guarnição
83,921 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “fun” 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 | fun |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /fʌn/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #16,068 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “fun”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for fun is neighbouring look-alikes ("funk", "furo", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced /fʌn/. Frequency #16,068 among 853 “F” headwords. Gloss: "divertido".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for fun, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "funk", "furo", "fuso", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is fun, spelled F-U-N.
Definition
- 1divertido
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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