ú

adv

By · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) ·

The verdict

“ú” sits in 18 confusable pairs (corpus #44,175) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#44,175
frequency rank, Portuguese
1
letter
18
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - onde

Corpus desk

Index PT-u · ú · Portuguese

ú · rank #44,175 · 0 variants · 18 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #44,175
  • LEN-SHORT 1 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "Ú" thin
  • PHOTO-FINISH íon

Nearest frequency peer: íon (-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 “ú”

Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo

corpus weight

What this shows As barras situam “ú” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

ú vs um
0% similar
ú vs us
0% similar
ú vs uh
0% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for ú
PropertyValue
Headwordú
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAdverb
Letters1
Frequency rank#44,175
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs18
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “ú”

A frequência vai do punhado de palavras do dia a dia (esquerda) à cauda longa quase nunca usada (direita).úcai aqui:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

A escala é logarítmica (cada marca ≈ 10× mais rara). Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “íon” (#44,174), “zag” (#44,172), “abóbada” (#44,179). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for ú is neighbouring look-alikes ("um", "us", …), not just typos; it is anadverb. Frequency #44,175. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ú, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "um", "us", "uh", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 ú, spelled Ú.

Definition

  1. 1
    onde
  2. 2
    cadê, onde está

Synonyms

onde

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ú"?
"ú" is spelled Ú.
What does "ú" mean?
As an adverb, "ú" means: onde
What words are commonly confused with "ú"?
"ú" is commonly confused with "um", "us", "uh". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "ú" come from?
"ú" is a Portuguese word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list