other

verb

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#7,957

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

other is aPortugueseverb. It means: tratar (determinado grupo social) como diferente e estranho; alienar It ranks #7,957 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with over and olhar.

Key facts for other
PropertyValue
Headwordother
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechVerb
Letters5
Frequency rank#7,957
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of other in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for other is 5 letters long, classified as averb. Corpus data places it at rank #7,957 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "tratar (determinado grupo social) como diferente e estranho; alienar".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for other, with forms such as "ohter", "otehr", and "otherr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "over", "olhar", "obter", 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 other, spelled O-T-H-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    tratar (determinado grupo social) como diferente e estranho; alienar

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ohter,otehr,otherr,othher,othre,otther,toher

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for other

Misspelling Variants of "other"

ohter5otehr5otherr6othher6othre5otther6toher5
Misspelling Variants of "other"

Frequency rank: #7,957 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "other"?
"other" is spelled O-T-H-E-R.
What does "other" mean?
As a verb, "other" means: tratar (determinado grupo social) como diferente e estranho; alienar
What words are commonly confused with "other"?
"other" is commonly confused with "over", "olhar", "obter". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "other" come from?
"other" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter O in our Portuguese index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.