las
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
- clube
clube
99,155 corpus weight
- curso
curso
99,154 corpus weight
- fundo
fundo
99,151 corpus weight
- las
las
99,149 corpus weight
- presença
presença
99,146 corpus weight
- rádio
rádio
99,144 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “las” 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 | las |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #852 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “las”
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
- 1as, pronome demonstrativo
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how las appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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