ONU
The verdict
“ONU” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #3,850) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #3,850
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 385
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sigla para a Organização das Nações Unidas
Corpus desk
Index PT-onu · ONU · Portuguese
ONU · rank #3,850 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,850
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 385
- PHOTO-FINISH oração
Nearest frequency peer: oração (+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 “ONU”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- intelectual
intelectual
96,159 corpus weight
- literalmente
literalmente
96,156 corpus weight
- ONU
ONU
96,151 corpus weight
- oração
oração
96,150 corpus weight
- permanecer
permanecer
96,149 corpus weight
- pânico
pânico
96,144 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “ONU” 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 | ONU |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #3,850 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “ONU”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ONU is neighbouring look-alikes ("os", "ou", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation. Frequency #3,850 among 385 “O” headwords. Gloss: "sigla para a Organização das Nações Unidas".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ONU, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "os", "ou", "or", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 ONU, spelled O-N-U.
Definition
- 1sigla para a Organização das Nações Unidas
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ONU appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A sede da ONU está localizada em Nova Iorque.
This word in other languages
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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