job
The verdict
“job” sits in 18 confusable pairs (corpus #13,776) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #13,776
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 196
- “J” headwords
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - trabalho
Corpus desk
Index PT-job · job · Portuguese
job · rank #13,776 · 0 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,776
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 196
- PHOTO-FINISH jacaré
Nearest frequency peer: jacaré (-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 “job”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- incorporação
incorporação
86,233 corpus weight
- indispensáv…
indispensável
86,232 corpus weight
- inserido
inserido
86,230 corpus weight
- jacaré
jacaré
86,226 corpus weight
- job
job
86,225 corpus weight
- lingerie
lingerie
86,221 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “job” 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 | job |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #13,776 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “job”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for job is neighbouring look-alikes ("joy", "jogo", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #13,776 among 196 “J” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
job doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "joy", "jogo", "José", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 job, spelled J-O-B.
Definition
- 1trabalho
- 2grupo de tarefas de computador executadas como um conjunto
- 3um ato criminoso
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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).