pan
/ˈpan
The verdict
“pan” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #4,573) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #4,573
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - a designação, dirigindo-se a uma pessoa pelo seu nome, apelido, título ou profissão; Sr.
Corpus desk
Index PT-pan · pan · Portuguese
pan · rank #4,573 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,573
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH parecido
Nearest frequency peer: parecido (+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 “pan”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- mala
mala
95,433 corpus weight
- Melo
Melo
95,431 corpus weight
- pan
pan
95,428 corpus weight
- parecido
parecido
95,427 corpus weight
- parentes
parentes
95,426 corpus weight
- popularidade
popularidade
95,422 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “pan” 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 | 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) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “pan”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for pan is neighbouring look-alikes ("pé", "PT", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈpan. Frequency #4,573 among 1,578 “P” headwords. Gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vážený pan Dvořák
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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