uh
The verdict
“uh” is a moderately-common Portuguese word, ranked #14,258 in Portuguese word frequency and used as an interjection.
- #14,258
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2
- letters
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - expressa que algo não tem aprovação, é desaprovado, é reprovado, está desagradando
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 | uh |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #14,258 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “uh” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for uh is 2 letters long, classified as an interjection. Corpus data places it at rank #14,258 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No generated misspelling entries exist for uh in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "um", "us", "ui", 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is uh, spelled U-H.
Definition
- 1expressa que algo não tem aprovação, é desaprovado, é reprovado, está desagradando
- 2expressa repugnância, aversão, repulsa
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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Using “uh”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is U-H - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “um” - see the side-by-side comparison. uh vs um
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.