ke
/ˈke/
The verdict
“ke” sits in 10 confusable pairs (corpus #18,370) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #18,370
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 95
- “K” headwords
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - nome dos kana け e ケ
Corpus desk
Index PT-ke · ke · Portuguese
ke · rank #18,370 · 0 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,370
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 95
- PHOTO-FINISH jurisprudência
Nearest frequency peer: jurisprudência (-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 “ke”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- ingrediente
ingrediente
81,643 corpus weight
- insulina
insulina
81,639 corpus weight
- intimidar
intimidar
81,636 corpus weight
- jurisprudên…
jurisprudência
81,632 corpus weight
- ke
ke
81,631 corpus weight
- Malawi
Malawi
81,620 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “ke” 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 | ke |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈke/ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #18,370 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “ke”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ke is neighbouring look-alikes ("ki", "ko", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈke/. Frequency #18,370 among 95 “K” headwords. Gloss: "nome dos kana け e ケ".
ke doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "ki", "ko", "key", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is ke, spelled K-E.
Definition
- 1nome dos kana け e ケ
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.