set
The verdict
“set” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #4,348) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #4,348
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - conjunto
Corpus desk
Index PT-set · set · Portuguese
set · rank #4,348 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,348
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH separação
Nearest frequency peer: separação (-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 “set”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- procedimento
procedimento
95,664 corpus weight
- respeitar
respeitar
95,660 corpus weight
- separação
separação
95,655 corpus weight
- set
set
95,653 corpus weight
- sopa
sopa
95,650 corpus weight
- torneio
torneio
95,644 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “set” 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 | set |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #4,348 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “set”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for set is neighbouring look-alikes ("só", "si", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #4,348 among 1,185 “S” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for set, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "só", "si", "su", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is set, spelled S-E-T.
Definition
- 1conjunto
- 2período de tempo usado para dividir jogos de esportes como basquetebol e voleibol
- 3jogo, conjunto
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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