ty
The verdict
“ty” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #23,157) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #23,157
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - tu, você (pronome pessoal do caso nominativo da segunda pessoa do singular)
Corpus desk
Index PT-ty · ty · Portuguese
ty · rank #23,157 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,157
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH tríplice
Nearest frequency peer: tríplice (-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 “ty”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- timbre
timbre
76,850 corpus weight
- tiveres
tiveres
76,849 corpus weight
- translation
translation
76,846 corpus weight
- tríplice
tríplice
76,845 corpus weight
- ty
ty
76,844 corpus weight
- veneração
veneração
76,837 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “ty” 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 | ty |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #23,157 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “ty”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ty is neighbouring look-alikes ("type", "te", …), not just typos; it is apronoun. Frequency #23,157 among 917 “T” headwords. Gloss: "tu, você (pronome pessoal do caso nominativo da segunda pessoa do singular)".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ty, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "type", "te", "to", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is ty, spelled T-Y.
Definition
- 1tu, você (pronome pessoal do caso nominativo 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.