jo
/ju/, /ʒu/
The verdict
“jo” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #6,897) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #6,897
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 196
- “J” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eu
Corpus desk
Index PT-jo · jo · Portuguese
jo · rank #6,897 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,897
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 196
- PHOTO-FINISH invadir
Nearest frequency peer: invadir (-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 “jo”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- gatilho
gatilho
93,111 corpus weight
- habitual
habitual
93,108 corpus weight
- invadir
invadir
93,105 corpus weight
- jo
jo
93,104 corpus weight
- liberar
liberar
93,100 corpus weight
- manteiga
manteiga
93,095 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “jo” 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 | jo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | /ju/, /ʒu/ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #6,897 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “jo”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for jo is neighbouring look-alikes ("joy", "job", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced /ju/, /ʒu/. Frequency #6,897 among 196 “J” headwords. Gloss: "eu".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for jo, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "joy", "job", "jogo", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 jo, spelled J-O.
Definition
- 1eu
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.