its
The verdict
“its” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #11,659) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #11,659
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 938
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - adjetivo possessivo da terceira pessoa neutra do singular, dele ou dela.
Corpus desk
Index PT-its · its · Portuguese
its · rank #11,659 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,659
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 938
- PHOTO-FINISH inventário
Nearest frequency peer: inventário (-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 “its”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- genro
genro
88,358 corpus weight
- insuportável
insuportável
88,347 corpus weight
- inventário
inventário
88,343 corpus weight
- its
its
88,342 corpus weight
- Ivete
Ivete
88,341 corpus weight
- licenciamen…
licenciamento
88,335 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “its” 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 | its |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #11,659 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “its”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for its is neighbouring look-alikes ("iu", "IVA", …), not just typos; it is anadjective. Frequency #11,659 among 938 “I” headwords. Gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how its appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
That window is its.
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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).