ir
The verdict
“ir” is in the everyday core of Portuguese, ranked #162 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a verb.
- #162
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - mover-se de um lugar para outro
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) |
Where “ir” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for ir is 2 letters long, classified as a verb. Corpus data places it at rank #162 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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)
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.
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Using “ir”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is I-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “is” - see the side-by-side comparison. ir vs is
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.