je
/ˈjɛ/
The verdict
“je” sits in 12 confusable pairs (corpus #14,171) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,171
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 196
- “J” headwords
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - segunda pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo jam:
Corpus desk
Index PT-je · je · Portuguese
je · rank #14,171 · 0 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,171
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 196
- PHOTO-FINISH irrigação
Nearest frequency peer: irrigação (-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 “je”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- incremento
incremento
85,836 corpus weight
- insistência
insistência
85,834 corpus weight
- insulto
insulto
85,833 corpus weight
- irrigação
irrigação
85,831 corpus weight
- je
je
85,830 corpus weight
- Leiria
Leiria
85,825 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “je” 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 | je |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈjɛ/ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #14,171 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “je”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for je is neighbouring look-alikes ("jo", "ji", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced /ˈjɛ/. Frequency #14,171 among 196 “J” headwords. Gloss: "segunda pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo jam:".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for je, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "jo", "ji", "joy", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is je, spelled J-E.
Definition
- 1segunda pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo jam:
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how je appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je shumë e bukur.
Tungjatjeta, si je?
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.