wet
/wɛt/
The verdict
“wet” is a moderately-common Portuguese word, ranked #37,592 in Portuguese word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #37,592
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 3
- letters
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - molhado
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 | wet |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /wɛt/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #37,592 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “wet” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for wet is 3 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /wɛt/. Corpus data places it at rank #37,592 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "molhado".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for wet, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "wo", "who", "why", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is wet, spelled W-E-T.
Definition
- 1molhado
Antonyms
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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Using “wet”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is W-E-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /wɛt/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “wo” - see the side-by-side comparison. wet vs wo
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.