nah
/naː/ ouvir^(fonte ?)
The verdict
“nah” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #26,820) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #26,820
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 360
- “N” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - perto
Corpus desk
Index PT-nah · nah · Portuguese
nah · rank #26,820 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,820
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 360
- PHOTO-FINISH minar
Nearest frequency peer: minar (-7 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 “nah”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- maluquice
maluquice
73,193 corpus weight
- mamilo
mamilo
73,191 corpus weight
- minar
minar
73,188 corpus weight
- nah
nah
73,181 corpus weight
- officer
officer
73,173 corpus weight
- operativo
operativo
73,171 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “nah” 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 | nah |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /naː/ ouvir^(fonte ?) |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #26,820 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “nah”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for nah is neighbouring look-alikes ("no", "né", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced /naː/ ouvir^(fonte ?). Frequency #26,820 among 360 “N” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for nah in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "no", "né", "nd", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is nah, spelled N-A-H.
Definition
- 1perto
- 2próximo
- 3familiar, íntimo
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nah appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Geh nicht zu nah ran.
Weihnachten ist nah.
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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).