put
/pʊt/
The verdict
“put” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #18,961) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #18,961
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - pôr, colocar
Corpus desk
Index PT-put · put · Portuguese
put · rank #18,961 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,961
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH Rafaela
Nearest frequency peer: Rafaela (+2 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 “put”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- originalida…
originalidade
81,065 corpus weight
- polémica
polémica
81,053 corpus weight
- put
put
81,040 corpus weight
- Rafaela
Rafaela
81,038 corpus weight
- ramal
ramal
81,037 corpus weight
- reabertura
reabertura
81,035 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “put” 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 | put |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /pʊt/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #18,961 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “put”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for put is neighbouring look-alikes ("puta", "puto", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced /pʊt/. Frequency #18,961 among 1,578 “P” headwords. Gloss: "pôr, colocar".
No misspelling variants are generated for put in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "puta", "puto", "puxo", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented 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 put, spelled P-U-T.
Definition
- 1pôr, colocar
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).