if
/ɪf/
The verdict
“if” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #5,207) as a conjunction. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #5,207
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 938
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - equivalente à conjunção se
Corpus desk
Index PT-if · if · Portuguese
if · rank #5,207 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,207
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 938
- PHOTO-FINISH ida
Nearest frequency peer: ida (-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 “if”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- horror
horror
94,796 corpus weight
- ida
ida
94,795 corpus weight
- if
if
94,794 corpus weight
- imigração
imigração
94,793 corpus weight
- imperador
imperador
94,792 corpus weight
- importar
importar
94,791 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “if” 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 | if |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Conjunction |
| IPA | /ɪf/ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #5,207 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “if”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for if is neighbouring look-alikes ("ir", "in", …), not just typos; it is aconjunction pronounced /ɪf/. Frequency #5,207 among 938 “I” headwords. Gloss: "equivalente à conjunção se".
Zero misspellings are on record for if in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is if, spelled I-F.
Definition
- 1equivalente à conjunção se
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.