is
The verdict
“is” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #1,709) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #1,709
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 938
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - contração de agus; e
Corpus desk
Index PT-is · is · Portuguese
is · rank #1,709 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,709
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 938
- PHOTO-FINISH jamais
Nearest frequency peer: jamais (+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 “is”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- cuidar
cuidar
98,296 corpus weight
- del
del
98,295 corpus weight
- distribuição
distribuição
98,294 corpus weight
- is
is
98,292 corpus weight
- jamais
jamais
98,291 corpus weight
- leite
leite
98,290 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “is” 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 | is |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #1,709 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “is”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for is is neighbouring look-alikes ("it", "iu", …), not just typos; it is averb. Frequency #1,709 among 938 “I” headwords. Gloss: "contração de agus; e".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for is, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "it", "iu", "its", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is is, spelled I-S.
Definition
- 1contração de agus; e
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how is appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
caileag is cat
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.