gnu
/ˈɡnu/
The verdict
“gnu” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #23,347) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #23,347
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 521
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - grande mamífero ungulado do gênero Connochaetes, nativo do continente africano
Corpus desk
Index PT-gnu · gnu · Portuguese
gnu · rank #23,347 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,347
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 521
- PHOTO-FINISH glândula
Nearest frequency peer: glândula (-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 “gnu”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- georgiano
georgiano
76,658 corpus weight
- glândula
glândula
76,657 corpus weight
- gnu
gnu
76,654 corpus weight
- guaraná
guaraná
76,651 corpus weight
- habitado
habitado
76,648 corpus weight
- herpes
herpes
76,644 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “gnu” 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 | gnu |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɡnu/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #23,347 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “gnu”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for gnu is neighbouring look-alikes ("go", "GQ", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈɡnu/. Frequency #23,347 among 521 “G” headwords. Gloss: "grande mamífero ungulado do gênero Connochaetes, nativo do continente africano".
gnu doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is gnu, spelled G-N-U.
Definition
- 1grande mamífero ungulado do gênero Connochaetes, nativo do continente africano
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gnu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Durante a dramática travessia do rio Mara, uma mãe gnu foi separada de seu filho, que foi levado pela correnteza.
Synonyms
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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