one

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for one is 3 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈwɐn/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,219 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "único:".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for one in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "os", "ou", "or", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is one, spelled O-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.