rey
/ˈrej/
The verdict
“rey” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #8,105) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #8,105
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 963
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - rei, monarca:
Corpus desk
Index PT-rey · rey · Portuguese
rey · rank #8,105 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,105
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 963
- PHOTO-FINISH roxo
Nearest frequency peer: roxo (+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 “rey”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- reclamação
reclamação
91,901 corpus weight
- residencial
residencial
91,898 corpus weight
- rey
rey
91,896 corpus weight
- roxo
roxo
91,895 corpus weight
- seio
seio
91,893 corpus weight
- separado
separado
91,890 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “rey” 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 | rey |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈrej/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #8,105 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “rey”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for rey is neighbouring look-alikes ("ri", "rio", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈrej/. Frequency #8,105 among 963 “R” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
rey has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is rey, spelled R-E-Y.
Definition
- 1rei, monarca:
- 2indivíduo de renome em determinada área ou assunto
- 3rei, carta de baralho com figura de um rei¹:
- 4rei (♔♚), peça principal do jogo de xadrez:
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rey appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Su muerte además acercó al rey de Francia con los de Navarra.
La Sota de Picas (J♠), la Sota de Corazones (J♥) y el Rey de Diamantes (K♦) aparecen dibujados de perfil, a diferencia del resto de las figuras que se les ve toda la cara.
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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