rim
/ɹɪm/
The verdict
“rim” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #10,608) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #10,608
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 963
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - borda, geralmente circular
Corpus desk
Index PT-rim · rim · Portuguese
rim · rank #10,608 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,608
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 963
- PHOTO-FINISH reservatório
Nearest frequency peer: reservatório (-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 “rim”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- reitoria
reitoria
89,398 corpus weight
- reservatório
reservatório
89,394 corpus weight
- rim
rim
89,393 corpus weight
- saltar
saltar
89,392 corpus weight
- selecionado
selecionado
89,390 corpus weight
- simplicidade
simplicidade
89,387 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “rim” 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 | rim |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɹɪm/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #10,608 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “rim”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for rim is neighbouring look-alikes ("rio", "rua", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ɹɪm/. Frequency #10,608 among 963 “R” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for rim, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "rio", "rua", "run", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is rim, spelled R-I-M.
Definition
- 1borda, geralmente circular
- 2aro da cesta
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).