und
/ʊnt/
The verdict
“und” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #29,551) as a conjunction. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #29,551
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 147
- “U” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (conjunção coordenativa) e.
Corpus desk
Index PT-und · und · Portuguese
und · rank #29,551 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,551
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 147
- PHOTO-FINISH tool
Nearest frequency peer: tool (-9 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “und”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- suavidade
suavidade
70,469 corpus weight
- tabagismo
tabagismo
70,467 corpus weight
- telefonar
telefonar
70,464 corpus weight
- tool
tool
70,459 corpus weight
- und
und
70,450 corpus weight
- acolá
acolá
70,434 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “und” sits against the nearest ranked Portuguese headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | und |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Conjunction |
| IPA | /ʊnt/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #29,551 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Onde “und” fica na frequência do português
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for und is neighbouring look-alikes ("us", "ur", …), not just typos; it is aconjunction pronounced /ʊnt/. Frequency #29,551 among 147 “U” headwords. Gloss: "(conjunção coordenativa) e.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for und, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "us", "ur", "ut", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is und, spelled U-N-D.
Definition
- 1(conjunção coordenativa) e.
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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- "und" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "us". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #29,551 among Portuguese headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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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.