ste
The verdict
“ste” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #36,242) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #36,242
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - segunda pessoa do plural do futuro do indicativo do verbo byť
Corpus desk
Index PT-ste · ste · Portuguese
ste · rank #36,242 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,242
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH spark
Nearest frequency peer: spark (-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 “ste”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- soca
soca
63,767 corpus weight
- spark
spark
63,761 corpus weight
- ste
ste
63,759 corpus weight
- sumariamente
sumariamente
63,756 corpus weight
- sílica
sílica
63,751 corpus weight
- tala
tala
63,750 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “ste” 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 | ste |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #36,242 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “ste”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ste is neighbouring look-alikes ("su", "SW", …), not just typos; it is averb. Frequency #36,242 among 1,185 “S” headwords. Gloss: "segunda pessoa do plural do futuro do indicativo do verbo byť".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ste, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "su", "SW", "sua", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is ste, spelled S-T-E.
Definition
- 1segunda pessoa do plural do futuro do indicativo do verbo byť
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nota: usado com o infinitivo para formar o futuro dos verbos imperfectivos.
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "ste", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).