John

noun

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#898

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

6

tracked variants

Confusables

14

similar word pairs

John is aPortuguesenoun. It means: prenome masculino, equivalente ao português João It ranks #898 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with joy and José.

Key facts for John
PropertyValue
HeadwordJohn
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters4
Frequency rank#898
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs14
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of John in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for John is 4 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #898 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for John, with forms such as "jhon", "jjohn", and "johhn". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "joy", "José", "Juan", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is John, spelled J-O-H-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    prenome masculino, equivalente ao português João
  2. 2
    João

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: jhon,jjohn,johhn,johnn,jonh,ojhn

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for John

Misspelling Variants of "John"

jhon4jjohn5johhn5johnn5jonh4ojhn4
Misspelling Variants of "John"

Frequency rank: #898 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "John"?
"John" is spelled J-O-H-N.
What does "John" mean?
As a noun, "John" means: prenome masculino, equivalente ao português João
What words are commonly confused with "John"?
"John" is commonly confused with "joy", "José", "Juan". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "John" come from?
"John" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter J in our Portuguese index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.