gem
/ʤɛm/
The verdict
“gem” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #36,472) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #36,472
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 521
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - gema (pedra preciosa)
Corpus desk
Index PT-gem · gem · Portuguese
gem · rank #36,472 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,472
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 521
- PHOTO-FINISH gasoduto
Nearest frequency peer: gasoduto (-2 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 “gem”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- gafe
gafe
63,534 corpus weight
- Garage
Garage
63,533 corpus weight
- gasoduto
gasoduto
63,531 corpus weight
- gem
gem
63,529 corpus weight
- giratório
giratório
63,527 corpus weight
- glacial
glacial
63,526 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “gem” 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 | gem |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ʤɛm/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #36,472 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “gem”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for gem is neighbouring look-alikes ("go", "GG", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ʤɛm/. Frequency #36,472 among 521 “G” headwords. Gloss: "gema (pedra preciosa)".
gem doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "go", "GG", "GQ", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is gem, spelled G-E-M.
Definition
- 1gema (pedra preciosa)
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).