qu
[ɡu]
The verdict
“qu” sits in 10 confusable pairs (corpus #6,802) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #6,802
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 129
- “Q” headwords
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - cisne
Corpus desk
Index PT-qu · qu · Portuguese
qu · rank #6,802 · 0 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,802
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 129
- PHOTO-FINISH questionar
Nearest frequency peer: questionar (+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 “qu”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- passear
passear
93,204 corpus weight
- povoado
povoado
93,203 corpus weight
- qu
qu
93,199 corpus weight
- questionar
questionar
93,197 corpus weight
- racista
racista
93,196 corpus weight
- reflexo
reflexo
93,195 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “qu” 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 | qu |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡu] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #6,802 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “qu”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for qu is neighbouring look-alikes ("que", "qui", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ɡu]. Frequency #6,802 among 129 “Q” headwords. Gloss: "cisne".
qu doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "que", "qui", "quem", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is qu, spelled Q-U.
Definition
- 1cisne
Synonyms
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.