ski
/ski/, SAMPA: /ski/
The verdict
“ski” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #20,135) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #20,135
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - esqui
Corpus desk
Index PT-ski · ski · Portuguese
ski · rank #20,135 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,135
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH simular
Nearest frequency peer: simular (-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 “ski”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- shape
shape
79,871 corpus weight
- shirt
shirt
79,870 corpus weight
- simplificado
simplificado
79,868 corpus weight
- simular
simular
79,867 corpus weight
- ski
ski
79,866 corpus weight
- sois
sois
79,865 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “ski” 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 | ski |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ski/, SAMPA: /ski/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #20,135 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “ski”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ski is neighbouring look-alikes ("só", "su", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ski/, SAMPA: /ski/. Frequency #20,135 among 1,185 “S” headwords. Gloss: "esqui".
No generated misspelling entries exist for ski in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "só", "su", "SW", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is ski, spelled S-K-I.
Definition
- 1esqui
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).