she
The verdict
“she” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #8,962) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #8,962
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - caso nominativo da terceira pessoa feminina do singular, ela.
Corpus desk
Index PT-she · she · Portuguese
she · rank #8,962 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,962
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH sexualmente
Nearest frequency peer: sexualmente (-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 “she”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- seda
seda
91,043 corpus weight
- sena
sena
91,042 corpus weight
- sexualmente
sexualmente
91,040 corpus weight
- she
she
91,039 corpus weight
- significati…
significativamente
91,038 corpus weight
- submarino
submarino
91,036 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “she” 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 | she |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #8,962 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “she”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for she is neighbouring look-alikes ("só", "si", …), not just typos; it is apronoun. Frequency #8,962 among 1,185 “S” headwords. Gloss: "caso nominativo da terceira pessoa feminina do singular, ela.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for she, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 she, spelled S-H-E.
Definition
- 1caso nominativo da terceira pessoa feminina do singular, ela.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how she appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
She is so happy!
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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