ons
/ons/
The verdict
“ons” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #48,564) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #48,564
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 385
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - pronome pessoal neutro do caso nominativo da terceira pessoa do plural
Corpus desk
Index PT-ons · ons · Portuguese
ons · rank #48,564 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,564
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 385
- PHOTO-FINISH ostracismo
Nearest frequency peer: ostracismo (+3 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 “ons”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- Minister
Minister
51,453 corpus weight
- ons
ons
51,437 corpus weight
- ostracismo
ostracismo
51,434 corpus weight
- ourives
ourives
51,432 corpus weight
- paganismo
paganismo
51,429 corpus weight
- paquerar
paquerar
51,424 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “ons” 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 | ons |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | /ons/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #48,564 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “ons”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ons is neighbouring look-alikes ("os", "ou", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced /ons/. Frequency #48,564 among 385 “O” headwords. Gloss: "pronome pessoal neutro do caso nominativo da terceira pessoa do plural".
ons has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "os", "ou", "or", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is ons, spelled O-N-S.
Definition
- 1pronome pessoal neutro do caso nominativo da terceira pessoa do plural
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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