ho
The verdict
“ho” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #8,490) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #8,490
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 409
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - o
Corpus desk
Index PT-ho · ho · Portuguese
ho · rank #8,490 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,490
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 409
- PHOTO-FINISH hipocrisia
Nearest frequency peer: hipocrisia (-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 “ho”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- frontal
frontal
91,517 corpus weight
- hipocrisia
hipocrisia
91,512 corpus weight
- ho
ho
91,511 corpus weight
- imobiliário
imobiliário
91,508 corpus weight
- internacion…
internacionalmente
91,507 corpus weight
- lápis
lápis
91,505 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “ho” 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 | ho |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #8,490 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “ho”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ho is neighbouring look-alikes ("hot", "hum", …), not just typos; it is apronoun. Frequency #8,490 among 409 “H” headwords. Gloss: "o".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ho, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hot", "hum", "hon", 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 ho, spelled H-O.
Definition
- 1o
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ho appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Viděl jsem ho, jak odchází.
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.