há
The verdict
“há” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #88) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #88
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 409
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - terceira pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo haver
Corpus desk
Index PT-ha · há · Portuguese
há · rank #88 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #88
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 409
- PHOTO-FINISH essa
Nearest frequency peer: essa (-2 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “há”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- tempo
tempo
99,917 corpus weight
- vida
vida
99,916 corpus weight
- essa
essa
99,915 corpus weight
- há
há
99,913 corpus weight
- tenho
tenho
99,911 corpus weight
- casa
casa
99,910 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “há” sits against the nearest ranked Portuguese headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | há |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #88 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Onde “há” fica na frequência do português
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for há is neighbouring look-alikes ("he", "ho", …), not just typos; it is averb. Frequency #88 among 409 “H” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No misspelling variants are generated for há 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, "he", "ho", "HC", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is há, spelled H-Á.
Definition
- 1terceira pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo haver
- 2segunda pessoa do singular do imperativo do verbo haver
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how há appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
ele, ela, você há
De quem não há no mundo semelhança.
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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- "há" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "he". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #88 among Portuguese headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more Portuguese words in the "H" letter cohort. H–Z browse
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.