ros
/ros/
The verdict
“ros” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #34,024) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #34,024
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 963
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - louro
Corpus desk
Index PT-ros · ros · Portuguese
ros · rank #34,024 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,024
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 963
- PHOTO-FINISH ricamente
Nearest frequency peer: ricamente (-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 “ros”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- refugiar
refugiar
65,988 corpus weight
- reimpressão
reimpressão
65,987 corpus weight
- ricamente
ricamente
65,979 corpus weight
- ros
ros
65,977 corpus weight
- ruir
ruir
65,975 corpus weight
- salina
salina
65,971 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “ros” 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 | ros |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ros/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #34,024 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “ros”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ros is neighbouring look-alikes ("rua", "run", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced /ros/. Frequency #34,024 among 963 “R” headwords. Gloss: "louro".
No generated misspelling entries exist for ros in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "rua", "run", "rue", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 ros, spelled R-O-S.
Definition
- 1louro
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).