us
/ʌs/
The verdict
“us” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #999) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #999
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 147
- “U” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - nos
Corpus desk
Index PT-us · us · Portuguese
us · rank #999 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #999
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 147
- PHOTO-FINISH sai
Nearest frequency peer: sai (-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 “us”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- preço
preço
99,005 corpus weight
- qualidade
qualidade
99,004 corpus weight
- sai
sai
99,003 corpus weight
- us
us
99,002 corpus weight
- al
al
98,999 corpus weight
- aniversário
aniversário
98,998 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “us” 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 | us |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | /ʌs/ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #999 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “us”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for us is neighbouring look-alikes ("ut", "usa", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced /ʌs/. Frequency #999 among 147 “U” headwords. Gloss: "nos".
No misspelling variants are generated for us in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ut", "usa", "use", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is us, spelled U-S.
Definition
- 1nos
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how us appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
They told us to wait here.
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.