l

pron

Letters

1 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,147

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

l is aPortuguesepron. It means: o, pronome demonstrativo It ranks #1,147 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with la and le.

Key facts for l
PropertyValue
Headwordl
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechPron
Letters1
Frequency rank#1,147
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for l is 1 letters long, classified as apron. Corpus data places it at rank #1,147 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "o, pronome demonstrativo".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for l in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "la", "le", "ls", 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 l, spelled L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    o, pronome demonstrativo

Frequency rank: #1,147 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "l"?
"l" is spelled L.
What does "l" mean?
As a pron, "l" means: o, pronome demonstrativo
What words are commonly confused with "l"?
"l" is commonly confused with "la", "le", "ls". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "l" come from?
"l" 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 L 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.