she
The verdict
“she” is a regularly-used Portuguese word, ranked #8,962 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a pronoun.
- #8,962
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - caso nominativo da terceira pessoa feminina do singular, ela.
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) |
Where “she” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for she is 3 letters long, classified as a pronoun. Corpus data places it at rank #8,962 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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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Using “she”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is S-H-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “só” - see the side-by-side comparison. she vs só
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.