Rad
/ˈraːt/
The verdict
“Rad” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #35,306) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #35,306
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 963
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - roda
Corpus desk
Index PT-rad · Rad · Portuguese
Rad · rank #35,306 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,306
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 963
- PHOTO-FINISH quietinho
Nearest frequency peer: quietinho (-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 “Rad”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- proferir
proferir
64,705 corpus weight
- pêndulo
pêndulo
64,698 corpus weight
- quietinho
quietinho
64,696 corpus weight
- Rad
Rad
64,695 corpus weight
- ratificar
ratificar
64,693 corpus weight
- recriação
recriação
64,689 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “Rad” 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 | Rad |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈraːt/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #35,306 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “Rad”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Rad is neighbouring look-alikes ("ri", "ré", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈraːt/. Frequency #35,306 among 963 “R” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Rad, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ri", "ré", "rio", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is Rad, spelled R-A-D.
Definition
- 1roda
- 2bicicleta
- 3pirueta
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).