hit

verb

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The verdict

“hit” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #5,308) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#5,308
frequency rank, Portuguese
409
“H” headwords
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - atingir

Corpus desk

Index PT-hit · hit · Portuguese

hit · rank #5,308 · 0 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #5,308
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 409
  • PHOTO-FINISH ginásio

Nearest frequency peer: ginásio (-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 “hit”

Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo

corpus weight

What this shows As barras situam “hit” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

hit vs ho
33% similar
hit vs hot
67% similar
hit vs hum
33% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for hit
PropertyValue
Headwordhit
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechVerb
Letters3
Frequency rank#5,308
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “hit”

Esta escala corre do núcleo do português quotidiano (esquerda) até o rastro de formas raras (direita).hitcai aqui:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

A escala é logarítmica (cada marca ≈ 10× mais rara). Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “ginásio” (#5,307), “galera” (#5,306), “gajo” (#5,305). Entre 409 lemas com “H”, “hit” fica em #5,308. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for hit is neighbouring look-alikes ("ho", "hot", …), not just typos; it is averb. Frequency #5,308 among 409 “H” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

hit doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ho", "hot", "hum", 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is hit, spelled H-I-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    atingir
  2. 2
    acertar
  3. 3
    golpear
  4. 4
    apertar, carregar ^((português de Portugal)), premer, pressionar

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how hit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. I hit him in the face
  2. Type the code and hit Enter

Synonyms

press

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "hit"?
"hit" is spelled H-I-T.
What does "hit" mean?
As a verb, "hit" means: atingir
What words are commonly confused with "hit"?
"hit" is commonly confused with "ho", "hot", "hum". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "hit" come from?
"hit" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Yes, PlainSpell is a completely free word reference. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, confusable pairs, homophones, and spelling corrections across 5 languages without any sign-up or subscription.

Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "hit", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

ira#5,314war#5,265may#5,226ida#5,206

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list