UBS
The verdict
“UBS” sits in 19 confusable pairs (corpus #41,288) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #41,288
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 147
- “U” headwords
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - estabelecimento da atenção primária do SUS destinado a serviços básicos de saúde, como consultas, vacinação e acompanhamento preventivo
Corpus desk
Index PT-ubs · UBS · Portuguese
UBS · rank #41,288 · 0 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,288
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 147
- PHOTO-FINISH trufa
Nearest frequency peer: trufa (-4 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 “UBS”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- testículo
testículo
58,730 corpus weight
- triz
triz
58,720 corpus weight
- truculência
truculência
58,718 corpus weight
- trufa
trufa
58,717 corpus weight
- UBS
UBS
58,713 corpus weight
- viscosidade
viscosidade
58,702 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “UBS” 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 | UBS |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #41,288 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “UBS”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for UBS is neighbouring look-alikes ("um", "us", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation. Frequency #41,288 among 147 “U” headwords. Gloss: "estabelecimento da atenção primária do SUS destinado a serviços básicos de saúde, como consultas, vacinação e acompanhamento preventivo".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for UBS, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "um", "us", "uh", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is UBS, spelled U-B-S.
Definition
- 1estabelecimento da atenção primária do SUS destinado a serviços básicos de saúde, como consultas, vacinação e acompanhamento preventivo
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how UBS appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A UBS do bairro ampliou o horário de atendimento
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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