Wal
/vaːl/ áudio^(fonte ?)
The verdict
“Wal” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #36,701) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #36,701
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 110
- “W” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - baleia
Corpus desk
Index PT-wal · Wal · Portuguese
Wal · rank #36,701 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,701
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 110
- PHOTO-FINISH zombar
Nearest frequency peer: zombar (+5 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 “Wal”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- transcrever
transcrever
63,322 corpus weight
- turkey
turkey
63,315 corpus weight
- Wal
Wal
63,300 corpus weight
- zombar
zombar
63,295 corpus weight
- âmago
âmago
63,293 corpus weight
- époque
époque
63,292 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “Wal” 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 | Wal |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /vaːl/ áudio^(fonte ?) |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #36,701 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “Wal”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Wal is neighbouring look-alikes ("wo", "who", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /vaːl/ áudio^(fonte ?). Frequency #36,701 among 110 “W” headwords. Gloss: "baleia".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Wal, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "wo", "who", "war", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is Wal, spelled W-A-L.
Definition
- 1baleia
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).