pum
/ˈpũ/
The verdict
“pum” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #28,340) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #28,340
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - exclamação que demonstra a imitação do som da queda de um objeto
Corpus desk
Index PT-pum · pum · Portuguese
pum · rank #28,340 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,340
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH pressentimento
Nearest frequency peer: pressentimento (-4 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 “pum”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- prazeroso
prazeroso
71,666 corpus weight
- pressentime…
pressentimento
71,665 corpus weight
- pum
pum
71,661 corpus weight
- recaída
recaída
71,656 corpus weight
- recíproco
recíproco
71,653 corpus weight
- redigir
redigir
71,652 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “pum” 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 | pum |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | /ˈpũ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #28,340 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “pum”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for pum is neighbouring look-alikes ("put", "puta", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced /ˈpũ/. Frequency #28,340 among 1,578 “P” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pum, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "put", "puta", "puro", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is pum, spelled P-U-M.
Definition
- 1exclamação que demonstra a imitação do som da queda de um objeto
- 2exclamação que demonstra a imitação do som de uma explosão
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).