y
[i]
The verdict
“y” sits in 8 confusable pairs (corpus #1,416) as a conjunction. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #1,416
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 26
- “Y” headwords
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - e
Corpus desk
Index PT-y · y · Portuguese
y · rank #1,416 · 0 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,416
- LEN-SHORT 1 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 26
- PHOTO-FINISH voto
Nearest frequency peer: voto (-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 “y”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- técnico
técnico
98,588 corpus weight
- violência
violência
98,587 corpus weight
- voto
voto
98,586 corpus weight
- y
y
98,585 corpus weight
- ótimo
ótimo
98,584 corpus weight
- apresentar
apresentar
98,582 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “y” 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 | y |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Conjunction |
| IPA | [i] |
| Letters | 1 |
| Frequency rank | #1,416 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “y”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for y is neighbouring look-alikes ("ya", "yo", …), not just typos; it is aconjunction pronounced [i]. Frequency #1,416 among 26 “Y” headwords. Gloss: "e".
y doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "ya", "yo", "ye", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is y, spelled Y.
Definition
- 1e
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how y appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"............. Ya muerto, ya de pie, ya imortal, ya fantasma se presentó al infierno que Dios le había marcado, y a sus órdenes iban, rotas y desangradas, las ánimas en pena de hombres y de caballos."
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.