gim
/ˈʒĩ/
The verdict
“gim” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #45,376) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #45,376
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 521
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - aguardente de cereais (cevada ou aveia) e zimbro
Corpus desk
Index PT-gim · gim · Portuguese
gim · rank #45,376 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,376
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 521
- PHOTO-FINISH GOAT
Nearest frequency peer: GOAT (+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 “gim”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- foreman
foreman
54,637 corpus weight
- gim
gim
54,625 corpus weight
- GOAT
GOAT
54,624 corpus weight
- génese
génese
54,616 corpus weight
- hierárquico
hierárquico
54,612 corpus weight
- honorável
honorável
54,611 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “gim” 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 | gim |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈʒĩ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #45,376 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “gim”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for gim is neighbouring look-alikes ("go", "GQ", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈʒĩ/. Frequency #45,376 among 521 “G” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
gim has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "go", "GQ", "gol", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is gim, spelled G-I-M.
Definition
- 1aguardente de cereais (cevada ou aveia) e zimbro
- 2garrafa ou dose de gim¹
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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