who
The verdict
“who” sits in 11 confusable pairs (corpus #5,055) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #5,055
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 110
- “W” headwords
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - que; o qual, os quais, a qual, as quais
Corpus desk
Index PT-who · who · Portuguese
who · rank #5,055 · 0 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,055
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 110
- PHOTO-FINISH voltado
Nearest frequency peer: voltado (-1 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 “who”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- viola
viola
94,949 corpus weight
- voltado
voltado
94,947 corpus weight
- who
who
94,946 corpus weight
- administrat…
administrativo
94,945 corpus weight
- andamento
andamento
94,942 corpus weight
- armado
armado
94,940 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “who” 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 | who |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #5,055 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “who”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for who is neighbouring look-alikes ("wo", "why", …), not just typos; it is apronoun. Frequency #5,055 among 110 “W” headwords. Gloss: "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
- 1que; o qual, os quais, a qual, as quais
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how who appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A student who studies hard gets high grades.
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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