por
/poɾ/, /pʊɾ/
The verdict
“por” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #18) as a preposition. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #18
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - exprime, entre outras relações, causa, modo, tempo, meio, lugar, qualidade, estado, preço, etc
Corpus desk
Index PT-por · por · Portuguese
por · rank #18 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #18
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH na
Nearest frequency peer: na (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “por”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- no
no
99,986 corpus weight
- se
se
99,985 corpus weight
- na
na
99,984 corpus weight
- por
por
99,983 corpus weight
- os
os
99,982 corpus weight
- eu
eu
99,981 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “por” sits against the nearest ranked Portuguese headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | por |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| IPA | /poɾ/, /pʊɾ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “por” sits in Portuguese frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for por is neighbouring look-alikes ("PT", "pro", …), not just typos; it is apreposition pronounced /poɾ/, /pʊɾ/. Frequency #18 among 1,578 “P” headwords. Gloss: "exprime, entre outras relações, causa, modo, tempo, meio, lugar, qualidade, estado, preço, etc".
por 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, "PT", "pro", "pub", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is por, spelled P-O-R.
Definition
- 1exprime, entre outras relações, causa, modo, tempo, meio, lugar, qualidade, estado, preço, etc
Synonyms
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.