his
The verdict
“his” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #8,209) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #8,209
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 409
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - pronome do caso possessivo da terceira pessoa masculina do singular, dele.
Corpus desk
Index PT-his · his · Portuguese
his · rank #8,209 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,209
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 409
- PHOTO-FINISH governante
Nearest frequency peer: governante (-4 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 “his”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- fraternidade
fraternidade
91,799 corpus weight
- governante
governante
91,796 corpus weight
- his
his
91,792 corpus weight
- legalização
legalização
91,786 corpus weight
- localizar
localizar
91,783 corpus weight
- logística
logística
91,781 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “his” 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 | his |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #8,209 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “his”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for his is neighbouring look-alikes ("ho", "hit", …), not just typos; it is apronoun. Frequency #8,209 among 409 “H” headwords. Gloss: "pronome do caso possessivo da terceira pessoa masculina do singular, dele.".
No misspelling variants are generated for his in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ho", "hit", "hot", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 his, spelled H-I-S.
Definition
- 1pronome do caso possessivo da terceira pessoa masculina do singular, dele.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how his appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
This house is his.
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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