jen
The verdict
“jen” sits in 16 confusable pairs (corpus #26,786) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #26,786
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 196
- “J” headwords
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - somente, só, unicamente, apenas, meramente
Corpus desk
Index PT-jen · jen · Portuguese
jen · rank #26,786 · 0 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,786
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 196
- PHOTO-FINISH jasmim
Nearest frequency peer: jasmim (-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 “jen”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- incriminar
incriminar
73,225 corpus weight
- inspecionar
inspecionar
73,221 corpus weight
- jasmim
jasmim
73,216 corpus weight
- jen
jen
73,215 corpus weight
- Jerônimo
Jerônimo
73,214 corpus weight
- lançador
lançador
73,204 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “jen” 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 | jen |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #26,786 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “jen”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for jen is neighbouring look-alikes ("jo", "ji", …), not just typos; it is anadverb. Frequency #26,786 among 196 “J” headwords. Gloss: "somente, só, unicamente, apenas, meramente".
Zero misspellings are on record for jen in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It also participates in 16 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.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is jen, spelled J-E-N.
Definition
- 1somente, só, unicamente, apenas, meramente
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how jen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ten vlak jezdí jen v neděli.
Synonyms
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).