Rat
/raːt/
The verdict
“Rat” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #37,067) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #37,067
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 963
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - conselho
Corpus desk
Index PT-rat · Rat · Portuguese
Rat · rank #37,067 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,067
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 963
- PHOTO-FINISH receção
Nearest frequency peer: receção (+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 “Rat”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- procedente
procedente
62,941 corpus weight
- profissiona…
profissionalizar
62,940 corpus weight
- pulsação
pulsação
62,938 corpus weight
- Rat
Rat
62,934 corpus weight
- receção
receção
62,933 corpus weight
- reply
reply
62,928 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “Rat” 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 | Rat |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /raːt/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #37,067 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “Rat”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Rat is neighbouring look-alikes ("ri", "ré", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /raːt/. Frequency #37,067 among 963 “R” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Rat doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 Rat, spelled R-A-T.
Definition
- 1conselho
- 2junta
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).