pd
The verdict
“pd” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #23,766) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #23,766
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - pode, terceira pessoa do singular no presente do indicativo do verbo poder
Corpus desk
Index PT-pd · pd · Portuguese
pd · rank #23,766 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,766
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH particularida…
Nearest frequency peer: particularidade (-4 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 “pd”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- paleta
paleta
76,242 corpus weight
- panqueca
panqueca
76,241 corpus weight
- particulari…
particularidade
76,239 corpus weight
- pd
pd
76,235 corpus weight
- porquinho
porquinho
76,229 corpus weight
- practice
practice
76,228 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “pd” 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 | pd |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #23,766 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “pd”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for pd is neighbouring look-alikes ("pé", "PT", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation. Frequency #23,766 among 1,578 “P” headwords. Gloss: "pode, terceira pessoa do singular no presente do indicativo do verbo poder".
pd has no tracked misspelling variants, 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.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is pd, spelled P-D.
Definition
- 1pode, terceira pessoa do singular no presente do indicativo do verbo poder
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pd appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ele pd ir lá amanhã.
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.