to
The verdict
“to” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #164) as a particle. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #164
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - marca o verbo seguinte como infinitivo
Corpus desk
Index PT-to · to · Portuguese
to · rank #164 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #164
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH la
Nearest frequency peer: la (-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 “to”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- dar
dar
99,840 corpus weight
- ir
ir
99,839 corpus weight
- la
la
99,838 corpus weight
- to
to
99,837 corpus weight
- boa
boa
99,836 corpus weight
- três
três
99,834 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “to” 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 | to |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Particle |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #164 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “to”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for to is neighbouring look-alikes ("tu", "ty", …), not just typos; it is aparticle. Frequency #164 among 917 “T” headwords. Gloss: "marca o verbo seguinte como infinitivo".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for to, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tu", "ty", "tua", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is to, spelled T-O.
Definition
- 1marca o verbo seguinte como infinitivo
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how to appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I want to sleep.
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.