hill
/hɪl/
The verdict
“hill” sits in 17 confusable pairs (corpus #5,434) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #5,434
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 409
- “H” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - colina; ladeira; morro; monte; barranco
Corpus desk
Index PT-hill · hill · Portuguese
hill · rank #5,434 · 4 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,434
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 409
- PHOTO-FINISH inveja
Nearest frequency peer: inveja (+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.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “hill”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- fotógrafo
fotógrafo
94,574 corpus weight
- garagem
garagem
94,570 corpus weight
- hill
hill
94,567 corpus weight
- inveja
inveja
94,565 corpus weight
- líquido
líquido
94,562 corpus weight
- mesquita
mesquita
94,560 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “hill” 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 | hill |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /hɪl/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #5,434 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “hill”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for hill is neighbouring look-alikes ("hit", "his", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /hɪl/. Frequency #5,434 among 409 “H” headwords. Gloss: "colina; ladeira; morro; monte; barranco".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for hill, with forms such as "hhill", "hil", and "hlil". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "hit", "his", "him", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is hill, spelled H-I-L-L.
Definition
- 1colina; ladeira; morro; monte; barranco
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhill
- hil
- hlil
- ihll
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hill - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).