ob
/ob/
The verdict
“ob” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #28,692) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #28,692
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 385
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eu, pronome pessoal do caso nominativo da primeira pessoa do singular;
Corpus desk
Index PT-ob · ob · Portuguese
ob · rank #28,692 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,692
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 385
- PHOTO-FINISH obediente
Nearest frequency peer: obediente (+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 “ob”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- nicotina
nicotina
71,313 corpus weight
- novel
novel
71,311 corpus weight
- ob
ob
71,309 corpus weight
- obediente
obediente
71,308 corpus weight
- obstruir
obstruir
71,307 corpus weight
- ofegante
ofegante
71,305 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “ob” 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 | ob |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | /ob/ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #28,692 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “ob”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ob is neighbouring look-alikes ("os", "ou", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced /ob/. Frequency #28,692 among 385 “O” headwords. Gloss: "eu, pronome pessoal do caso nominativo da primeira pessoa do singular;".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ob, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "os", "ou", "oi", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is ob, spelled O-B.
Definition
- 1eu, pronome pessoal do caso nominativo da primeira pessoa do singular;
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.