hot
/hɒt/
The verdict
“hot” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #6,301) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #6,301
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 409
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - quente
Corpus desk
Index PT-hot · hot · Portuguese
hot · rank #6,301 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,301
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 409
- PHOTO-FINISH incentivo
Nearest frequency peer: incentivo (+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 “hot”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- expandir
expandir
93,707 corpus weight
- extraordiná…
extraordinário
93,706 corpus weight
- fígado
fígado
93,703 corpus weight
- hot
hot
93,700 corpus weight
- incentivo
incentivo
93,699 corpus weight
- instalar
instalar
93,696 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “hot” 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 | hot |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /hɒt/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #6,301 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “hot”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for hot is neighbouring look-alikes ("hum", "Hut", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced /hɒt/. Frequency #6,301 among 409 “H” headwords. 9 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for hot in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hum", "Hut", "hui", 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 pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is hot, spelled H-O-T.
Definition
- 1quente
- 2febril
- 3apimentado (em relação a comida)
- 4roubado (mercadoria, por exemplo)
- 5gostoso (sexualmente atrativo, em se falando de uma pessoa)
- 6sexual, excitante
- 7popular
- 8perto de descobrir um segredo
- 9que acabou de ser publicado
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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