it
/ɪt/
The verdict
“it” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #1,934) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #1,934
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 938
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - caso nominativo da terceira pessoa neutra do singular, ele, ela, ile
Corpus desk
Index PT-it · it · Portuguese
it · rank #1,934 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,934
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 938
- PHOTO-FINISH Israel
Nearest frequency peer: Israel (-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 “it”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- folha
folha
98,071 corpus weight
- infância
infância
98,069 corpus weight
- Israel
Israel
98,068 corpus weight
- it
it
98,067 corpus weight
- mau
mau
98,065 corpus weight
- naquela
naquela
98,064 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “it” 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 | it |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | /ɪt/ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #1,934 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “it”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for it is neighbouring look-alikes ("iu", "its", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced /ɪt/. Frequency #1,934 among 938 “I” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for it in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "iu", "its", "IVA", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is it, spelled I-T.
Definition
- 1caso nominativo da terceira pessoa neutra do singular, ele, ela, ile
- 2caso objetivo da terceira pessoa neutra do singular, ele, ela, o, a, lhe
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.