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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “nos”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- 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 Bars show where “nos” 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 | nos |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | /ˈnuʃ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #42 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Onde “nos” fica na frequência do português
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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- "nos" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "nu". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #42 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.