poço
/ˈpo.su/
The verdict
“poço” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #5,129) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #5,129
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - buraco fundo, geralmente circular, cavado no chão, com o objetivo de encontrar água
Corpus desk
Index PT-poco · poço · Portuguese
poço · rank #5,129 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,129
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH possuir
Nearest frequency peer: possuir (-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 “poço”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- ocidente
ocidente
94,878 corpus weight
- operar
operar
94,877 corpus weight
- oriental
oriental
94,876 corpus weight
- possuir
possuir
94,873 corpus weight
- poço
poço
94,872 corpus weight
- queima
queima
94,866 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “poço” 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 | poço |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpo.su/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #5,129 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “poço”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for poço is neighbouring look-alikes ("por", "pro", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈpo.su/. Frequency #5,129 among 1,578 “P” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for poço, with forms such as "opço", "pooç", and "ppoço". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "por", "pro", "pop", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is poço, spelled P-O-Ç-O.
Definition
- 1buraco fundo, geralmente circular, cavado no chão, com o objetivo de encontrar água
- 2parte mais baixa do duto onde se move um elevador
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opço
- pooç
- ppoço
- pçoo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of poço - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "poço", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).