in
The verdict
“in” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #269) as a preposition. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #269
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 938
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - em
Corpus desk
Index PT-in · in · Portuguese
in · rank #269 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #269
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 938
- PHOTO-FINISH dinheiro
Nearest frequency peer: dinheiro (-2 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 “in”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- número
número
99,735 corpus weight
- dinheiro
dinheiro
99,734 corpus weight
- in
in
99,732 corpus weight
- seria
seria
99,730 corpus weight
- sistema
sistema
99,729 corpus weight
- amor
amor
99,727 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “in” 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 | in |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #269 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “in”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for in is neighbouring look-alikes ("ir", "is", …), not just typos; it is apreposition. Frequency #269 among 938 “I” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
in doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ir", "is", "it", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is in, spelled I-N.
Definition
- 1em
- 2estabelece relação com o aquilo que se veste: de
- 3de (forma construções adverbiais (liga ação e seu valor predicativo)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how in appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The girl in black boots is his girlfriend
Please, bring me that porcelain, but listen! In a careful way
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.