gun
The verdict
“gun” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #22,665) as a conjunction. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #22,665
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 521
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - que
Corpus desk
Index PT-gun · gun · Portuguese
gun · rank #22,665 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,665
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 521
- PHOTO-FINISH hack
Nearest frequency peer: hack (+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 “gun”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- government
government
77,345 corpus weight
- gun
gun
77,336 corpus weight
- hack
hack
77,333 corpus weight
- hara
hara
77,332 corpus weight
- histeria
histeria
77,329 corpus weight
- horse
horse
77,326 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “gun” 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 | gun |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Conjunction |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #22,665 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “gun”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for gun is neighbouring look-alikes ("guy", "guru", …), not just typos; it is aconjunction. Frequency #22,665 among 521 “G” headwords. Gloss: "que".
gun doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "guy", "guru", "guto", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 gun, spelled G-U-N.
Definition
- 1que
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gun appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).