pax
The verdict
“pax” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #26,136) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #26,136
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - indivíduo, cabeça
Corpus desk
Index PT-pax · pax · Portuguese
pax · rank #26,136 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,136
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH Patagônia
Nearest frequency peer: Patagônia (-2 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 “pax”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- panquecas
panquecas
73,872 corpus weight
- Patagônia
Patagônia
73,867 corpus weight
- pax
pax
73,865 corpus weight
- perspetiva
perspetiva
73,860 corpus weight
- pessimismo
pessimismo
73,859 corpus weight
- picar
picar
73,857 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “pax” 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 | pax |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #26,136 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “pax”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for pax is neighbouring look-alikes ("pé", "PT", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #26,136 among 1,578 “P” headwords. Gloss: "indivíduo, cabeça".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for pax, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pé", "PT", "pó", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is pax, spelled P-A-X.
Definition
- 1indivíduo, cabeça
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pax appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).