pub
/pʌb/
The verdict
“pub” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,932) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,932
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - bar, boteco
Corpus desk
Index PT-pub · pub · Portuguese
pub · rank #14,932 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,932
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH pães
Nearest frequency peer: pães (+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 “pub”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- polonês
polonês
85,074 corpus weight
- pombo
pombo
85,073 corpus weight
- pub
pub
85,069 corpus weight
- pães
pães
85,068 corpus weight
- ranger
ranger
85,064 corpus weight
- recebimento
recebimento
85,061 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “pub” 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 | pub |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pʌb/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #14,932 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “pub”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for pub is neighbouring look-alikes ("put", "pum", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /pʌb/. Frequency #14,932 among 1,578 “P” headwords. Gloss: "bar, boteco".
Zero misspellings are on record for pub in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "put", "pum", "puf", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is pub, spelled P-U-B.
Definition
- 1bar, boteco
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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).