ir
The verdict
“ir” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #162) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #162
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 938
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mover-se de um lugar para outro
Corpus desk
Index PT-ir · ir · Portuguese
ir · rank #162 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #162
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 938
- PHOTO-FINISH dar
Nearest frequency peer: dar (-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 “ir”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- tinha
tinha
99,842 corpus weight
- contra
contra
99,841 corpus weight
- dar
dar
99,840 corpus weight
- ir
ir
99,839 corpus weight
- la
la
99,838 corpus weight
- to
to
99,837 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “ir” 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 | ir |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #162 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “ir”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ir is neighbouring look-alikes ("is", "it", …), not just typos; it is averb. Frequency #162 among 938 “I” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Zero misspellings are on record for ir in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "is", "it", "iu", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is ir, spelled I-R.
Definition
- 1mover-se de um lugar para outro
- 2forma o futuro (breve) de um verbo no infinitivo
- 3passar do estado vivo para a condição de morto
- 4deixar-se levar, ser influenciado (regência verbal com preposição: por ou em)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Eu irei à sua casa amanhã.
Vou caminhar pela praia (o mesmo que 'caminharei pela praia')
This word in other languages
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.