pó
/ˈpɔ/
The verdict
“pó” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #3,718) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #3,718
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - parte da terra formada por pequenos grânulos
Corpus desk
Index PT-po · pó · Portuguese
pó · rank #3,718 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,718
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH proprietário
Nearest frequency peer: proprietário (-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 “pó”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- preparação
preparação
96,289 corpus weight
- promessa
promessa
96,286 corpus weight
- proprietário
proprietário
96,285 corpus weight
- pó
pó
96,283 corpus weight
- recuperação
recuperação
96,280 corpus weight
- representar
representar
96,278 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “pó” 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 | pó |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpɔ/ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #3,718 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “pó”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for pó is neighbouring look-alikes ("PT", "por", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈpɔ/. Frequency #3,718 among 1,578 “P” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
pó doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "PT", "por", "pro", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is pó, spelled P-Ó.
Definition
- 1parte da terra formada por pequenos grânulos
- 2pequenas partículas de qualquer substância sólida
This word in other languages
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.