iam
/ˈi.am/, /ˈi.ɑm/
The verdict
“iam” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #4,823) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #4,823
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 938
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - terceira pessoa do plural do pretérito imperfeito do indicativo do verbo ir
Corpus desk
Index PT-iam · iam · Portuguese
iam · rank #4,823 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,823
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 938
- PHOTO-FINISH houvesse
Nearest frequency peer: houvesse (-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 “iam”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- gordo
gordo
95,182 corpus weight
- houvesse
houvesse
95,179 corpus weight
- iam
iam
95,178 corpus weight
- ignorar
ignorar
95,177 corpus weight
- indígena
indígena
95,175 corpus weight
- inocente
inocente
95,173 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “iam” 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 | iam |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈi.am/, /ˈi.ɑm/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #4,823 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “iam”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for iam is neighbouring look-alikes ("ir", "in", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced /ˈi.am/, /ˈi.ɑm/. Frequency #4,823 among 938 “I” headwords. Gloss: "terceira pessoa do plural do pretérito imperfeito do indicativo do verbo ir".
iam 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, "ir", "in", "is", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is iam, spelled I-A-M.
Definition
- 1terceira pessoa do plural do pretérito imperfeito do indicativo do verbo ir
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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