poh

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The verdict

“poh” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #70,507 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#70,507
frequency rank, Portuguese
1,578
“P” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - designativa de espanto ou de repulsão

Corpus desk

Index PT-poh · poh · Portuguese

poh · rank #70,507 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #70,507
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,578
  • PHOTO-FINISH pessegueiro

Nearest frequency peer: pessegueiro (-8 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.

Ranks da cauda longa perto de “poh”

Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto

corpus weight

What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “poh” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for poh
PropertyValue
Headwordpoh
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechInterjection
Letters3
Frequency rank#70,507
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “poh” em português

Esta escala corre do núcleo do português quotidiano (esquerda) até o rastro de formas raras (direita).pohcai nesta cauda de raridade:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

A escala é logarítmica (cada marca ≈ 10× mais rara). Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “pessegueiro” (#70,499), “personificar” (#70,496), “permacultura” (#70,492). Entre 1,578 lemas com “P”, “poh” fica em #70,507. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

poh is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #70,507 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as aninterjection. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "designativa de espanto ou de repulsão".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for poh, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is poh, spelled P-O-H.

Definition

  1. 1
    designativa de espanto ou de repulsão

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how poh appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. A literatura portuguesa através dos textos

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "poh"?
"poh" is spelled P-O-H.
What does "poh" mean?
As an interjection, "poh" means: designativa de espanto ou de repulsão
What language does "poh" come from?
"poh" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "poh", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

joi#71,094léu#69,714oci#69,031bor#72,280

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list