rep
The verdict
“rep” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #28,006) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #28,006
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 963
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - gênero musical caracterizado por improvisação rimada, com ritmo sincopado e monólogo ou diálogo
Corpus desk
Index PT-rep · rep · Portuguese
rep · rank #28,006 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,006
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 963
- PHOTO-FINISH repousar
Nearest frequency peer: repousar (+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 “rep”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- recarga
recarga
72,002 corpus weight
- reescrever
reescrever
71,999 corpus weight
- rep
rep
71,995 corpus weight
- repousar
repousar
71,994 corpus weight
- reprovado
reprovado
71,993 corpus weight
- ronco
ronco
71,984 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “rep” 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 | rep |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #28,006 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “rep”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for rep is neighbouring look-alikes ("ri", "rio", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #28,006 among 963 “R” headwords. Gloss: "gênero musical caracterizado por improvisação rimada, com ritmo sincopado e monólogo ou diálogo".
rep has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ri", "rio", "rua", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is rep, spelled R-E-P.
Definition
- 1gênero musical caracterizado por improvisação rimada, com ritmo sincopado e monólogo ou diálogo
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rep appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nunca se ouviu tanto rep no Brasil como hoje
ou no português rep (ritmo e poesia)
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).