no
The verdict
“no” is in the everyday core of Portuguese, ranked #15 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a pronoun.
- #15
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - forma enclítica do pronome o quando precedido de forma verbal terminada em som nasal
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 | no |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “no” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for no is 2 letters long, classified as a pronoun. Corpus data places it at rank #15 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for no in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "nu", "nos", "num", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 no, spelled N-O.
Definition
- 1forma enclítica do pronome o quando precedido de forma verbal terminada em som nasal
- 2variante enclítica do pronome pessoal nos antes de lo, la, los, las
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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Using “no”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is N-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “nu” - see the side-by-side comparison. no vs nu
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
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.