nad
/ˈnat/ ouvir^(fonte ?)
The verdict
“nad” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #33,954) as a preposition. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #33,954
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 360
- “N” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - em cima, acima de
Corpus desk
Index PT-nad · nad · Portuguese
nad · rank #33,954 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,954
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 360
- PHOTO-FINISH motivador
Nearest frequency peer: motivador (-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 “nad”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- miracle
miracle
66,058 corpus weight
- moer
moer
66,055 corpus weight
- monótono
monótono
66,053 corpus weight
- motivador
motivador
66,050 corpus weight
- nad
nad
66,047 corpus weight
- oftalmologi…
oftalmologista
66,040 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “nad” 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 | nad |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| IPA | /ˈnat/ ouvir^(fonte ?) |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #33,954 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “nad”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for nad is neighbouring look-alikes ("no", "né", …), not just typos; it is apreposition pronounced /ˈnat/ ouvir^(fonte ?). Frequency #33,954 among 360 “N” headwords. Gloss: "em cima, acima de".
nad has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "no", "né", "nd", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is nad, spelled N-A-D.
Definition
- 1em cima, acima de
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nad appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
20 stupňů nad nulou.
Antonyms
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).