war
/ˈvaːɐ̯/
The verdict
“war” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #5,265) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #5,265
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 110
- “W” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - primeira pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo sein
Corpus desk
Index PT-war · war · Portuguese
war · rank #5,265 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,265
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 110
- PHOTO-FINISH acadêmico
Nearest frequency peer: acadêmico (+2 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 “war”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- terminal
terminal
94,742 corpus weight
- tinta
tinta
94,741 corpus weight
- war
war
94,736 corpus weight
- acadêmico
acadêmico
94,734 corpus weight
- actividades
actividades
94,732 corpus weight
- Anderson
Anderson
94,728 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “war” 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 | war |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈvaːɐ̯/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #5,265 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “war”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for war is neighbouring look-alikes ("wo", "who", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced /ˈvaːɐ̯/. Frequency #5,265 among 110 “W” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Zero misspellings are on record for war in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "wo", "who", "was", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is war, spelled W-A-R.
Definition
- 1primeira pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo sein
- 2terceira pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo sein
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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