uh
The verdict
“uh” sits in 18 confusable pairs (corpus #14,258) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,258
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 147
- “U” headwords
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - expressa que algo não tem aprovação, é desaprovado, é reprovado, está desagradando
Corpus desk
Index PT-uh · uh · Portuguese
uh · rank #14,258 · 0 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,258
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 147
- PHOTO-FINISH ventura
Nearest frequency peer: ventura (+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 “uh”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- tabu
tabu
85,752 corpus weight
- telenovela
telenovela
85,751 corpus weight
- temperamento
temperamento
85,750 corpus weight
- testado
testado
85,749 corpus weight
- uh
uh
85,743 corpus weight
- ventura
ventura
85,742 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “uh” 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 | uh |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #14,258 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “uh”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for uh is neighbouring look-alikes ("um", "us", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection. Frequency #14,258 among 147 “U” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
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
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how uh appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Uh! abaixo a ditadura!
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.