rue
/ʁy/
The verdict
“rue” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #15,200) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #15,200
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 963
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - rua:
Corpus desk
Index PT-rue · rue · Portuguese
rue · rank #15,200 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,200
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 963
- PHOTO-FINISH running
Nearest frequency peer: running (+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 “rue”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- retribuir
retribuir
84,804 corpus weight
- riacho
riacho
84,803 corpus weight
- rue
rue
84,801 corpus weight
- running
running
84,800 corpus weight
- sarcasmo
sarcasmo
84,798 corpus weight
- shake
shake
84,795 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “rue” 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 | rue |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ʁy/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #15,200 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “rue”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for rue is neighbouring look-alikes ("run", "rum", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ʁy/. Frequency #15,200 among 963 “R” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for rue, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "run", "rum", "ruim", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 rue, spelled R-U-E.
Definition
- 1rua:
- 2caminho longo e estreito:
- 3coluna em branco resultado pelo alinhamento casual de espaços entre palavras em linhas sucessivas
- 4arruda, arbusto do gênero Ruta:
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Son bureau est situé rue Blaise-Pascal.
Les rues du centre-ville sont très animées.
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).