ré
/ˈRɛ/
The verdict
“ré” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,922) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,922
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 963
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - segunda nota musical da escala de dó maior
Corpus desk
Index PT-re · ré · Portuguese
ré · rank #9,922 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,922
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 963
- PHOTO-FINISH rubro
Nearest frequency peer: rubro (-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 “ré”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- relembrar
relembrar
90,086 corpus weight
- reservado
reservado
90,085 corpus weight
- respeitado
respeitado
90,084 corpus weight
- rubro
rubro
90,081 corpus weight
- ré
ré
90,079 corpus weight
- sea
sea
90,076 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “ré” 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 | ré |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈRɛ/ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #9,922 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “ré”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ré is neighbouring look-alikes ("ri", "rio", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈRɛ/. Frequency #9,922 among 963 “R” headwords. Gloss: "segunda nota musical da escala de dó maior".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ré, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ri", "rio", "rua", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is ré, spelled R-É.
Definition
- 1segunda nota musical da escala de dó maior
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ré appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Um piano comum tem, geralmente, sete rés.
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.