gás
/ˈɡaʃ/
The verdict
“gás” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #1,748) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #1,748
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 521
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - estado fluido da matéria, sem forma definida, cujo volume é o do recipiente que o contém
Corpus desk
Index PT-gas · gás · Portuguese
gás · rank #1,748 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,748
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 521
- PHOTO-FINISH golpe
Nearest frequency peer: golpe (-1 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 “gás”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- floresta
floresta
98,256 corpus weight
- gol
gol
98,255 corpus weight
- golpe
golpe
98,254 corpus weight
- gás
gás
98,253 corpus weight
- impacto
impacto
98,252 corpus weight
- ligar
ligar
98,250 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “gás” 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 | gás |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɡaʃ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #1,748 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “gás”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for gás is neighbouring look-alikes ("go", "GG", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈɡaʃ/. Frequency #1,748 among 521 “G” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
gás has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "go", "GG", "GQ", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is gás, spelled G-Á-S.
Definition
- 1estado fluido da matéria, sem forma definida, cujo volume é o do recipiente que o contém
- 2animação, entusiasmo
- 3flatulência
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gás appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
O oxigênio, na temperatura ambiente, é um gás inodoro, insípido e incolor
Esta turma está com todo o gás.
This word in other languages
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "gás", not the corpus desk frequency band.