ou
Letters
2 characters
Frequency Rank
#36
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
ou is aPortugueseconj. It means: une palavras ou orações, podendo designar alternativa ou incompatibilidade Pronounced /ow/, /o/. It ranks #36 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with ovo and our.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ou |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Conj |
| IPA | /ow/, /o/ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #36 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for ou is 2 letters long, classified as aconj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ow/, /o/. Corpus data places it at rank #36 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ou 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, "ovo", "our", "OVA", 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 ou, spelled O-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1une palavras ou orações, podendo designar alternativa ou incompatibilidade
- 2une palavras ou orações, podendo designar indecisão ou incerteza
- 3faz indicação de outro modo de expressar algo
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Frequency rank: #36 in Portuguese
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