HC
The verdict
“HC” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #25,330) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #25,330
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 409
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - habeas corpus (medida judicial extrema de garantia da liberdade)
Corpus desk
Index PT-hc · HC · Portuguese
HC · rank #25,330 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,330
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 409
- PHOTO-FINISH Hammer
Nearest frequency peer: Hammer (-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 “HC”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- grelhado
grelhado
74,676 corpus weight
- Hammer
Hammer
74,674 corpus weight
- HC
HC
74,671 corpus weight
- humildemente
humildemente
74,664 corpus weight
- ic
ic
74,662 corpus weight
- ileso
ileso
74,661 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “HC” 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 | HC |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #25,330 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “HC”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for HC is neighbouring look-alikes ("he", "ho", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation. Frequency #25,330 among 409 “H” headwords. Gloss: "habeas corpus (medida judicial extrema de garantia da liberdade)".
No misspelling variants are generated for HC in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "he", "ho", "hit", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is HC, spelled H-C.
Definition
- 1habeas corpus (medida judicial extrema de garantia da liberdade)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how HC appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"Dos cerca de 130 mil pedidos de HC julgados pelo Supremo desde o ano 2000, 81% tiveram seguimento negado, foram extintos ou arquivados", afirma o levantamento, que será lançado na próxima quarta (10), na sede da corte, em Brasília.
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.