our
/aʊɚ/, SAMPA: /aU@`/
The verdict
“our” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,958) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,958
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 385
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - nosso, nossos, da gente
Corpus desk
Index PT-our · our · Portuguese
our · rank #7,958 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,958
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 385
- PHOTO-FINISH other
Nearest frequency peer: other (-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 “our”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- nacionalida…
nacionalidade
92,049 corpus weight
- noturno
noturno
92,046 corpus weight
- other
other
92,044 corpus weight
- our
our
92,043 corpus weight
- penha
penha
92,041 corpus weight
- pica
pica
92,039 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “our” 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 | our |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | /aʊɚ/, SAMPA: /aU@`/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #7,958 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “our”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for our is neighbouring look-alikes ("ovo", "OVA", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced /aʊɚ/, SAMPA: /aU@`/. Frequency #7,958 among 385 “O” headwords. Gloss: "nosso, nossos, da gente".
No misspelling variants are generated for our in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ovo", "OVA", "ouro", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is our, spelled O-U-R.
Definition
- 1nosso, nossos, da gente
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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