nos
/ˈnuʃ/
The verdict
“nos” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #42) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #42
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 360
- “N” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - a nós
Corpus desk
Index PT-nos · nos · Portuguese
nos · rank #42 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #42
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 360
- PHOTO-FINISH já
Nearest frequency peer: já (-1 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 “nos”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- muito
muito
99,962 corpus weight
- isso
isso
99,961 corpus weight
- já
já
99,960 corpus weight
- nos
nos
99,959 corpus weight
- também
também
99,958 corpus weight
- está
está
99,956 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “nos” 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 | nos |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | /ˈnuʃ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #42 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “nos”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for nos is neighbouring look-alikes ("nu", "num", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced /ˈnuʃ/. Frequency #42 among 360 “N” headwords. Gloss: "a nós".
No misspelling variants are generated for nos in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "nu", "num", "Not", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 nos, spelled N-O-S.
Definition
- 1a nós
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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