ic
/iʧ/
The verdict
“ic” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #25,339) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #25,339
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 938
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eu, pronome pessoal do caso reto da primeira pessoa do singular
Corpus desk
Index PT-ic · ic · Portuguese
ic · rank #25,339 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,339
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 938
- PHOTO-FINISH ileso
Nearest frequency peer: ileso (+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 “ic”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- humildemente
humildemente
74,664 corpus weight
- ic
ic
74,662 corpus weight
- ileso
ileso
74,661 corpus weight
- imperfeito
imperfeito
74,660 corpus weight
- incondicion…
incondicionalmente
74,659 corpus weight
- inconstituc…
inconstitucionalidade
74,658 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “ic” 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 | ic |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | /iʧ/ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #25,339 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “ic”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ic is neighbouring look-alikes ("ir", "in", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced /iʧ/. Frequency #25,339 among 938 “I” headwords. Gloss: "eu, pronome pessoal do caso reto da primeira pessoa do singular".
No generated misspelling entries exist for ic in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is ic, spelled I-C.
Definition
- 1eu, pronome pessoal do caso reto da primeira pessoa do singular
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.