rua
/ˈRuɐ/
The verdict
“rua” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #420) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #420
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 963
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - fora!, gire! - ordem enérgica para deixar o recinto onde se está
Corpus desk
Index PT-rua · rua · Portuguese
rua · rank #420 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #420
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 963
- PHOTO-FINISH passado
Nearest frequency peer: passado (-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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “rua”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- força
força
99,585 corpus weight
- Internet
Internet
99,584 corpus weight
- passado
passado
99,583 corpus weight
- rua
rua
99,581 corpus weight
- Base
Base
99,579 corpus weight
- demais
demais
99,577 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “rua” against nearest ranked Portuguese headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
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 | rua |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | /ˈRuɐ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #420 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Onde “rua” fica na frequência do português
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for rua is neighbouring look-alikes ("run", "rue", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced /ˈRuɐ/. Frequency #420 among 963 “R” headwords. Gloss: "fora!, gire! - ordem enérgica para deixar o recinto onde se está".
No misspelling variants are generated for rua in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "run", "rue", "rum", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is rua, spelled R-U-A.
Definition
- 1fora!, gire! - ordem enérgica para deixar o recinto onde se está
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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