las

pron

The verdict

“las” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #852) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#852
frequency rank, Portuguese
581
“L” headwords
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - as, pronome demonstrativo

Corpus desk

Index PT-las · las · Portuguese

las · rank #852 · 0 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-CORE #852
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 581
  • PHOTO-FINISH fundo

Nearest frequency peer: fundo (-2 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 “las”

Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo

corpus weight

What this shows As barras situam “las” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

las vs le
33% similar
las vs ls
67% similar
las vs ló
33% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for las
PropertyValue
Headwordlas
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechPronoun
Letters3
Frequency rank#852
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “las”

Esta escala corre do núcleo do português quotidiano (esquerda) até o rastro de formas raras (direita).lascai aqui:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

O eixo é logarítmico: cada tick marca cerca de dez vezes menos frequência. Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “fundo” (#850), “presença” (#855), “curso” (#847). Entre 581 lemas com “L”, “las” fica em #852. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for las is neighbouring look-alikes ("le", "ls", …), not just typos; it is apronoun. Frequency #852 among 581 “L” headwords. Gloss: "as, pronome demonstrativo".

No misspelling variants are generated for las in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "le", "ls", "ló", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is las, spelled L-A-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    as, pronome demonstrativo

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how las appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Las que tu comiste éran mies

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "las"?
"las" is spelled L-A-S.
What does "las" mean?
As a pronoun, "las" means: as, pronome demonstrativo
What words are commonly confused with "las"?
"las" is commonly confused with "le", "ls", "ló". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "las" come from?
"las" is a Portuguese word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "las", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list