thu
/hu/, /u/
The verdict
“thu” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #75,167 among 917 “T” headwords), classed as a pronoun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,167
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - você, tu; pronome não-enfático da segunda pessoa do singular
Corpus desk
Index PT-thu · thu · Portuguese
thu · rank #75,167 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,167
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH thy
Nearest frequency peer: thy (+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.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “thu”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- termómetro
termómetro
24,839 corpus weight
- terraplenag…
terraplenagem
24,838 corpus weight
- thu
thu
24,834 corpus weight
- thy
thy
24,833 corpus weight
- tojo
tojo
24,830 corpus weight
- torniquete
torniquete
24,827 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “thu” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | thu |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | /hu/, /u/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #75,167 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “thu” em português
Rare enough to double-check
thu is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #75,167 among 917 “T” headwords, classed as apronoun, transcribed /hu/, /u/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "você, tu; pronome não-enfático da segunda pessoa do singular".
No misspelling variants are generated for thu in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 thu, spelled T-H-U.
Definition
- 1você, tu; pronome não-enfático da segunda pessoa do singular
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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