uns
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#485
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
uns is anPortuguesearticle. It means: alguns; certas pessoas It ranks #485 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with us and ur.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | uns |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Article |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #485 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for uns is 3 letters long, classified as anarticle. Corpus data places it at rank #485 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "alguns; certas pessoas".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for uns in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "us", "ur", "ut", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is uns, spelled U-N-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1alguns; certas pessoas
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Frequency rank: #485 in Portuguese
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