PhD
The verdict
“PhD” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #17,608) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #17,608
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - pessoa que possui o título de doutorado; doutor/doutora
Corpus desk
Index PT-phd · PhD · Portuguese
PhD · rank #17,608 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,608
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH pessimista
Nearest frequency peer: pessimista (-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 “PhD”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- pelado
pelado
82,400 corpus weight
- pessimista
pessimista
82,395 corpus weight
- PhD
PhD
82,393 corpus weight
- polvo
polvo
82,391 corpus weight
- pressuposto
pressuposto
82,386 corpus weight
- problem
problem
82,385 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “PhD” 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 | PhD |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #17,608 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “PhD”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for PhD is neighbouring look-alikes ("PT", "pó", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #17,608 among 1,578 “P” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Zero misspellings are on record for PhD in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "PT", "pó", "pi", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is PhD, spelled P-H-D.
Definition
- 1pessoa que possui o título de doutorado; doutor/doutora
- 2o título de doutorado em si
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how PhD appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Uma PhD em física começou um canal de divulgação científica.
Estou terminando meu PhD.
Synonyms
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).