ut

conj

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The verdict

“ut” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #39,908) as a conjunction. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#39,908
frequency rank, Portuguese
147
“U” headwords
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - como

Corpus desk

Index PT-ut · ut · Portuguese

ut · rank #39,908 · 0 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #39,908
  • LEN-SHORT 2 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 147
  • PHOTO-FINISH uniformidade

Nearest frequency peer: uniformidade (-4 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 “ut”

Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo

corpus weight

What this shows As barras situam “ut” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

ut vs uva
33% similar
ut vs UTI
0% similar
ut vs útil
25% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for ut
PropertyValue
Headwordut
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechConjunction
Letters2
Frequency rank#39,908
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “ut”

Esta escala corre do núcleo do português quotidiano (esquerda) até o rastro de formas raras (direita).utcai aqui:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

O eixo é logarítmico: cada tick marca cerca de dez vezes menos frequência. Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “uniformidade” (#39,904), “ultrapassagem” (#39,902), “transbordar” (#39,894). Entre 147 lemas com “U”, “ut” fica em #39,908. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for ut is neighbouring look-alikes ("uva", "UTI", …), not just typos; it is aconjunction. Frequency #39,908 among 147 “U” headwords. 11 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ut, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "uva", "UTI", "útil", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 ut, spelled U-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    como
  2. 2
    segundo, conforme
  3. 3
    a fim de que
  4. 4
    para; para que
  5. 5
    de tal modo que
  6. 6
    se bem que
  7. 7
    posto que; dado que
  8. 8
    ainda que
  9. 9
    desde que
  10. 10
    enquanto
  11. 11
    que não (antes de verbos que expressem receio = verba timendi)

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how ut appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Non vivo ut edam.
  2. Ut vim, atque injuriam propulsemus.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ut"?
"ut" is spelled U-T.
What does "ut" mean?
As a conjunction, "ut" means: como
What words are commonly confused with "ut"?
"ut" is commonly confused with "uva", "UTI", "útil". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "ut" come from?
"ut" is a Portuguese word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list