its
The verdict
“its” is a moderately-common Portuguese word, ranked #11,659 in Portuguese word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #11,659
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - adjetivo possessivo da terceira pessoa neutra do singular, dele ou dela.
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 | its |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #11,659 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “its” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for its is 3 letters long, classified as an adjective. Corpus data places it at rank #11,659 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "adjetivo possessivo da terceira pessoa neutra do singular, dele ou dela.".
its doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "iu", "IVA", "I", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is its, spelled I-T-S.
Definition
- 1adjetivo possessivo da terceira pessoa neutra do singular, dele ou dela.
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 “its”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is I-T-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “iu” - see the side-by-side comparison. its vs iu
- 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.