wen
The verdict
“wen” sits in 16 confusable pairs (corpus #25,862) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #25,862
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 110
- “W” headwords
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - a quem, de quem, par quem
Corpus desk
Index PT-wen · wen · Portuguese
wen · rank #25,862 · 0 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,862
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 110
- PHOTO-FINISH ye
Nearest frequency peer: ye (+3 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 “wen”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- treme
treme
74,149 corpus weight
- wen
wen
74,139 corpus weight
- ye
ye
74,136 corpus weight
- abalo
abalo
74,131 corpus weight
- academic
academic
74,128 corpus weight
- account
account
74,127 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “wen” 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 | wen |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #25,862 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “wen”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for wen is neighbouring look-alikes ("wo", "who", …), not just typos; it is apronoun. Frequency #25,862 among 110 “W” headwords. Gloss: "a quem, de quem, par quem".
wen has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "wo", "who", "why", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is wen, spelled W-E-N.
Definition
- 1a quem, de quem, par quem
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how wen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ich weiß nicht wen ich fragen soll: Eu não sei a quem deveria perguntar.
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).