uni
/ʊ.ˈni/
The verdict
“uni” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #18,214) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #18,214
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 147
- “U” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - primeira pessoa do singular do pretérito perfeito do indicativo do verbo unir
Corpus desk
Index PT-uni · uni · Portuguese
uni · rank #18,214 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,214
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 147
- PHOTO-FINISH third
Nearest frequency peer: third (-8 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 “uni”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- tempero
tempero
81,798 corpus weight
- then
then
81,797 corpus weight
- theory
theory
81,796 corpus weight
- third
third
81,795 corpus weight
- uni
uni
81,787 corpus weight
- woods
woods
81,777 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “uni” 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 | uni |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ʊ.ˈni/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #18,214 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “uni”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for uni is neighbouring look-alikes ("us", "ur", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced /ʊ.ˈni/. Frequency #18,214 among 147 “U” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for uni, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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.
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 uni, spelled U-N-I.
Definition
- 1primeira pessoa do singular do pretérito perfeito do indicativo do verbo unir
- 2segunda pessoa do plural do imperativo do verbo unir
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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).