Luc
/lyk/.
The verdict
“Luc” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #15,850) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #15,850
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 581
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lucas
Corpus desk
Index PT-luc · Luc · Portuguese
Luc · rank #15,850 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,850
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 581
- PHOTO-FINISH lenço
Nearest frequency peer: lenço (-3 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 “Luc”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- Kuwait
Kuwait
84,155 corpus weight
- lenço
lenço
84,154 corpus weight
- Luc
Luc
84,151 corpus weight
- marítimo
marítimo
84,147 corpus weight
- Matias
Matias
84,146 corpus weight
- melhoras
melhoras
84,145 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “Luc” 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 | Luc |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /lyk/. |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #15,850 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “Luc”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Luc is neighbouring look-alikes ("luz", "lui", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /lyk/.. Frequency #15,850 among 581 “L” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Luc doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "luz", "lui", "luta", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 Luc, spelled L-U-C.
Definition
- 1Lucas
- 2autor do Evangelho de São Lucas e dos Atos dos Apóstolos era um médico grego que viveu na cidade grega de Antioquia, na Síria antiga e companheiro de Paulo
Synonyms
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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