ins
/ɪns/
The verdict
“ins” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #27,900) as a preposition. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #27,900
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 938
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ao, no, dendro do
Corpus desk
Index PT-ins · ins · Portuguese
ins · rank #27,900 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,900
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 938
- PHOTO-FINISH instruir
Nearest frequency peer: instruir (+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 “ins”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- ineficiente
ineficiente
72,109 corpus weight
- injúria
injúria
72,105 corpus weight
- ins
ins
72,101 corpus weight
- instruir
instruir
72,100 corpus weight
- intocável
intocável
72,097 corpus weight
- intrusão
intrusão
72,096 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “ins” 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 | ins |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| IPA | /ɪns/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #27,900 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “ins”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ins is neighbouring look-alikes ("ir", "is", …), not just typos; it is apreposition pronounced /ɪns/. Frequency #27,900 among 938 “I” headwords. Gloss: "ao, no, dendro do".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ins, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ir", "is", "it", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is ins, spelled I-N-S.
Definition
- 1ao, no, dendro do
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ins appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Patient muss zurück ins Krankenhaus.
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).