gol
/ˈgow/
The verdict
“gol” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #1,746) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #1,746
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 521
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - pontuação em certos tipos de jogos como o futebol e andebol
Corpus desk
Index PT-gol · gol · Portuguese
gol · rank #1,746 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,746
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 521
- PHOTO-FINISH floresta
Nearest frequency peer: floresta (-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 “gol”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- escrita
escrita
98,259 corpus weight
- floresta
floresta
98,256 corpus weight
- gol
gol
98,255 corpus weight
- golpe
golpe
98,254 corpus weight
- gás
gás
98,253 corpus weight
- impacto
impacto
98,252 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “gol” 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 | gol |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈgow/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #1,746 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “gol”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for gol is neighbouring look-alikes ("GQ", "guy", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈgow/. Frequency #1,746 among 521 “G” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for gol in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "GQ", "guy", "gun", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 gol, spelled G-O-L.
Definition
- 1pontuação em certos tipos de jogos como o futebol e andebol
- 2região entre as traves num campo de jogo
- 3o ato de fazer a bola entrar no gol² que gera a marcação de um ponto ou tal ato e o conjunto dos atos imediatamente precedentes que elevaram à marcação
- 4resultado muito bem-sucedido, exitoso, de uma ação acertada realizada
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gol appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"…Pelé ganhou sete clássicos e marcou dez vezes. Garrincha venceu três e fez só um gol…."
"Uma criança de oito anos morreu após ser atingida pela trave de ferro de um gol que caiu sobre ela."
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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