hat
/hæt/, SAMPA: /h{t/
The verdict
“hat” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,453) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,453
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 409
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - chapéu
Corpus desk
Index PT-hat · hat · Portuguese
hat · rank #19,453 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,453
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 409
- PHOTO-FINISH Herzog
Nearest frequency peer: Herzog (+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 “hat”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- fritar
fritar
80,561 corpus weight
- goma
goma
80,551 corpus weight
- hat
hat
80,548 corpus weight
- Herzog
Herzog
80,547 corpus weight
- horto
horto
80,544 corpus weight
- implante
implante
80,537 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “hat” 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 | hat |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /hæt/, SAMPA: /h{t/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #19,453 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “hat”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for hat is neighbouring look-alikes ("he", "ho", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /hæt/, SAMPA: /h{t/. Frequency #19,453 among 409 “H” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for hat 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, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented 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 hat, spelled H-A-T.
Definition
- 1chapéu
- 2um papel ou uma função que uma pessoa pode preencher
- 3recipiente do qual se tira o número em um sorteio (de loteria)
- 4um sorteio ou loteria
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).