gin
/ˈʒĩ/
The verdict
“gin” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #22,337) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #22,337
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 521
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ver gim
Corpus desk
Index PT-gin · gin · Portuguese
gin · rank #22,337 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,337
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 521
- PHOTO-FINISH forro
Nearest frequency peer: forro (-7 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 “gin”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- feitiçaria
feitiçaria
77,679 corpus weight
- fenomenal
fenomenal
77,677 corpus weight
- forro
forro
77,671 corpus weight
- gin
gin
77,664 corpus weight
- gueto
gueto
77,656 corpus weight
- halo
halo
77,652 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “gin” 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 | gin |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈʒĩ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #22,337 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “gin”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for gin is neighbouring look-alikes ("go", "GQ", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈʒĩ/. Frequency #22,337 among 521 “G” headwords. Gloss: "ver gim".
No generated misspelling entries exist for gin in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "go", "GQ", "gol", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is gin, spelled G-I-N.
Definition
- 1ver gim
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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