l
The verdict
“l” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #1,147) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #1,147
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 581
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - o, pronome demonstrativo
Corpus desk
Index PT-l · l · Portuguese
l · rank #1,147 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,147
- LEN-SHORT 1 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 581
- PHOTO-FINISH função
Nearest frequency peer: função (-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 “l”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- cuidado
cuidado
98,859 corpus weight
- el
el
98,858 corpus weight
- escrito
escrito
98,857 corpus weight
- função
função
98,855 corpus weight
- l
l
98,854 corpus weight
- participar
participar
98,852 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “l” 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 | l |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| Letters | 1 |
| Frequency rank | #1,147 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “l”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for l is neighbouring look-alikes ("la", "le", …), not just typos; it is apronoun. Frequency #1,147 among 581 “L” headwords. Gloss: "o, pronome demonstrativo".
No misspelling variants are generated for l in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "la", "le", "ls", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is l, spelled L.
Definition
- 1o, pronome demonstrativo
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how l appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L que bou a pedir-te ye amportante
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.