nam
The verdict
“nam” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #18,396) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #18,396
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 360
- “N” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - caso dativo do pronome pessoal my
Corpus desk
Index PT-nam · nam · Portuguese
nam · rank #18,396 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,396
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 360
- PHOTO-FINISH muitíssimo
Nearest frequency peer: muitíssimo (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “nam”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- melancia
melancia
81,612 corpus weight
- molde
molde
81,611 corpus weight
- muitíssimo
muitíssimo
81,607 corpus weight
- nam
nam
81,605 corpus weight
- nulo
nulo
81,601 corpus weight
- orgulhar
orgulhar
81,598 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “nam” sits against the nearest ranked Portuguese headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | nam |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #18,396 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Onde “nam” fica na frequência do português
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for nam is neighbouring look-alikes ("no", "né", …), not just typos; it is apronoun. Frequency #18,396 among 360 “N” headwords. Gloss: "caso dativo do pronome pessoal my".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for nam, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "no", "né", "nd", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 nam, spelled N-A-M.
Definition
- 1caso dativo do pronome pessoal my
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nam appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ojcze nasz... Chleba naszego powszedniego daj nam dzisiaj i odpuść nam nasze winy...
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).
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- "nam" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "no". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #18,396 among Portuguese headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more Portuguese words in the "N" letter cohort. N–Z browse
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.