kat
/ˈkɐt/
The verdict
“kat” sits in 18 confusable pairs (corpus #15,371) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #15,371
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 95
- “K” headwords
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - gato (Felis sylvestris catus):
Corpus desk
Index PT-kat · kat · Portuguese
kat · rank #15,371 · 0 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,371
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 95
- PHOTO-FINISH jornalístico
Nearest frequency peer: jornalístico (-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 “kat”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- jornalístico
jornalístico
84,631 corpus weight
- kat
kat
84,630 corpus weight
- kingdom
kingdom
84,629 corpus weight
- laudo
laudo
84,626 corpus weight
- leave
leave
84,624 corpus weight
- lego
lego
84,623 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “kat” 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 | kat |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkɐt/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #15,371 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “kat”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for kat is neighbouring look-alikes ("ki", "ko", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈkɐt/. Frequency #15,371 among 95 “K” headwords. Gloss: "gato (Felis sylvestris catus):".
No generated misspelling entries exist for kat in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "ki", "ko", "ke", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is kat, spelled K-A-T.
Definition
- 1gato (Felis sylvestris catus):
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how kat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die kat is aanvanklik gedomestikeerd omdat hulle goeie jagters was en hulle die mens teen knaagdiere soos rotte en muise kon beskerm.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).