show
The verdict
“show” is in the everyday core of Portuguese, ranked #778 in Portuguese word frequency and used as an interjection.
- #778
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 4
- letters
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - expressa apreço
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 | show |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #778 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “show” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for show is 4 letters long, classified as an interjection. Corpus data places it at rank #778 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "expressa apreço".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for show, with forms such as "hsow", "shhow", and "showw". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "só", "SW", "sou", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 show, spelled S-H-O-W.
Definition
- 1expressa apreço
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: hsow,shhow,showw,shwo,sohw,sshow
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of show - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 “show”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is S-H-O-W - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “só” - see the side-by-side comparison. show 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.