ice
/ˈɑɪs/
The verdict
“ice” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #10,198) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #10,198
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 938
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - gelo
Corpus desk
Index PT-ice · ice · Portuguese
ice · rank #10,198 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,198
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 938
- PHOTO-FINISH incerteza
Nearest frequency peer: incerteza (+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 “ice”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- fada
fada
89,813 corpus weight
- ferir
ferir
89,810 corpus weight
- gerir
gerir
89,806 corpus weight
- ice
ice
89,803 corpus weight
- incerteza
incerteza
89,802 corpus weight
- irritante
irritante
89,798 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “ice” 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 | ice |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɑɪs/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #10,198 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “ice”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ice is neighbouring look-alikes ("ir", "in", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈɑɪs/. Frequency #10,198 among 938 “I” headwords. Gloss: "gelo".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ice, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ir", "in", "is", 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 ice, spelled I-C-E.
Definition
- 1gelo
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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).