who

pron

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The verdict

“who” is a regularly-used Portuguese word, ranked #5,055 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a pronoun.

#5,055
frequency rank, Portuguese
3
letters
11
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - que; o qual, os quais, a qual, as quais

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

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

who vs wo
67% similar
who vs why
67% similar
who vs wir
33% similar

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

Key facts for who
PropertyValue
Headwordwho
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechPronoun
Letters3
Frequency rank#5,055
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs11
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “who” sits in Portuguese frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). who lands here:

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

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for who is 3 letters long, classified as a pronoun. Corpus data places it at rank #5,055 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "que; o qual, os quais, a qual, as quais".

No generated misspelling entries exist for who in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "wo", "why", "wir", 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 is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is who, spelled W-H-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    que; o qual, os quais, a qual, as quais

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 "who"?
"who" is spelled W-H-O.
What does "who" mean?
As a pronoun, "who" means: que; o qual, os quais, a qual, as quais
What words are commonly confused with "who"?
"who" is commonly confused with "wo", "why", "wir". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "who" come from?
"who" 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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Using “who”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Portuguese spelling is W-H-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Don't mix it up with “wo” - see the side-by-side comparison. who 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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list