god
The verdict
“god” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #8,904) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #8,904
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 521
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - divindade, deus
Corpus desk
Index PT-god · god · Portuguese
god · rank #8,904 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,904
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 521
- PHOTO-FINISH gentileza
Nearest frequency peer: gentileza (-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 “god”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- fascinante
fascinante
91,105 corpus weight
- gentileza
gentileza
91,098 corpus weight
- god
god
91,097 corpus weight
- Honduras
Honduras
91,093 corpus weight
- humildade
humildade
91,092 corpus weight
- impresso
impresso
91,091 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “god” 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 | god |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #8,904 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “god”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for god is neighbouring look-alikes ("GQ", "gol", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #8,904 among 521 “G” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for god in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "GQ", "gol", "guy", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is god, spelled G-O-D.
Definition
- 1divindade, deus
- 2imagem, ídolo, objeto, animal etc. reverenciado como divino
- 3pessoa influente, admirada, adorada
- 4algo de suprema importância
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how god appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vishnu, one of the gods in Hinduism.
Many treated the actor as a god.
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
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