once
/ˈɔnθe/
The verdict
“once” sits in 14 confusable pairs (corpus #12,301) as a numeral. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #12,301
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 385
- “O” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - onze
Corpus desk
Index PT-once · once · Portuguese
once · rank #12,301 · 4 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,301
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 385
- PHOTO-FINISH ocular
Nearest frequency peer: ocular (-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.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “once”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- morango
morango
87,707 corpus weight
- MPB
MPB
87,706 corpus weight
- nacionalismo
nacionalismo
87,703 corpus weight
- ocular
ocular
87,702 corpus weight
- once
once
87,700 corpus weight
- otário
otário
87,698 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “once” 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 | once |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Numeral |
| IPA | /ˈɔnθe/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #12,301 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “once”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for once is neighbouring look-alikes ("one", "ONU", …), not just typos; it is anumeral pronounced /ˈɔnθe/. Frequency #12,301 among 385 “O” headwords. Gloss: "onze".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for once, with forms such as "noce", "oncce", and "onec". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "one", "ONU", "ono", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is once, spelled O-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1onze
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- noce
- oncce
- onec
- onnce
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of once - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).