pan
/ˈpan
The verdict
“pan” is a regularly-used Portuguese word, ranked #4,573 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #4,573
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - a designação, dirigindo-se a uma pessoa pelo seu nome, apelido, título ou profissão; Sr.
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 | pan |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpan |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #4,573 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pan” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for pan is 3 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈpan. Corpus data places it at rank #4,573 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "a designação, dirigindo-se a uma pessoa pelo seu nome, apelido, título ou profissão; Sr.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pan in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pé", "PT", "pó", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is pan, spelled P-A-N.
Definition
- 1a designação, dirigindo-se a uma pessoa pelo seu nome, apelido, título ou profissão; Sr.
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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Using “pan”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is P-A-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈpan (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “pé” - see the side-by-side comparison. pan vs pé
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.