guy
/gaɪ/
The verdict
“guy” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,165) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,165
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 521
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - cara
Corpus desk
Index PT-guy · guy · Portuguese
guy · rank #7,165 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,165
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 521
- PHOTO-FINISH gota
Nearest frequency peer: gota (-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 “guy”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- gene
gene
92,841 corpus weight
- gold
gold
92,840 corpus weight
- gota
gota
92,839 corpus weight
- guy
guy
92,836 corpus weight
- insegurança
insegurança
92,831 corpus weight
- interferênc…
interferência
92,830 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “guy” 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 | guy |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /gaɪ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #7,165 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “guy”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for guy is neighbouring look-alikes ("go", "GG", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /gaɪ/. Frequency #7,165 among 521 “G” headwords. Gloss: "cara".
No generated misspelling entries exist for guy in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "go", "GG", "GQ", 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 its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is guy, spelled G-U-Y.
Definition
- 1cara
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how guy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
This guy is nuts!
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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