quão
The verdict
“quão” sits in 15 confusable pairs (corpus #2,849) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #2,849
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 129
- “Q” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - exprime intensidade: quanto, como
Corpus desk
Index PT-quao · quão · Portuguese
quão · rank #2,849 · 4 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,849
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 129
- PHOTO-FINISH recuperar
Nearest frequency peer: recuperar (+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 “quão”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- marcar
marcar
97,159 corpus weight
- mel
mel
97,158 corpus weight
- pinto
pinto
97,154 corpus weight
- quão
quão
97,152 corpus weight
- recuperar
recuperar
97,151 corpus weight
- suporte
suporte
97,148 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “quão” 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 | quão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #2,849 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “quão”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for quão is neighbouring look-alikes ("que", "qui", …), not just typos; it is anadverb. Frequency #2,849 among 129 “Q” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for quão, with forms such as "qquão", "quoã", and "qãuo". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "que", "qui", "quem", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is quão, spelled Q-U-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1exprime intensidade: quanto, como
- 2(Uso: formal) exprime comparação, seguindo-se a tão
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how quão appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
O senhor não sabe quão gratos estamos.
É tão bela quão inteligente.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- qquão
- quoã
- qãuo
- uqão
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of quão - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "quão", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).