hum
/ˈũ/
The verdict
“hum” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,922) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,922
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 409
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (com realização com alongamento da vogal nasal) expressa dúvida, receio, inquietação, reticência
Corpus desk
Index PT-hum · hum · Portuguese
hum · rank #7,922 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,922
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 409
- PHOTO-FINISH granada
Nearest frequency peer: granada (-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 “hum”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- Francis
Francis
92,086 corpus weight
- grace
grace
92,082 corpus weight
- granada
granada
92,080 corpus weight
- hum
hum
92,079 corpus weight
- Iguaçu
Iguaçu
92,077 corpus weight
- ilustração
ilustração
92,076 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “hum” 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 | hum |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | /ˈũ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #7,922 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “hum”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for hum is neighbouring look-alikes ("Hut", "hurt", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced /ˈũ/. Frequency #7,922 among 409 “H” headwords. 5 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for hum, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Hut", "hurt", "hush", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is hum, spelled H-U-M.
Definition
- 1(com realização com alongamento da vogal nasal) expressa dúvida, receio, inquietação, reticência
- 2(com realização comumente mediana da vogal nasal) expressa compreensão
- 3(com realização mediana da vogal nasal) expressa apreciação com tom aprovativo, aprovação
- 4(com realização breve da vogal nasal e comumente prum tom agudo) expressa surpresa
- 5(com realização com alongamento da vogal nasal) expressa lamentação quando se dá conta ou se é informado de algo
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hum appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hum, duvido que ele venha.
Hum, então era isso, tão fácil.
This word in other languages
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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