ya
/ʝa/
The verdict
“ya” sits in 9 confusable pairs (corpus #6,015) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #6,015
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 26
- “Y” headwords
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - já
Corpus desk
Index PT-ya · ya · Portuguese
ya · rank #6,015 · 0 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,015
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 26
- PHOTO-FINISH vós
Nearest frequency peer: vós (-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 “ya”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- testamento
testamento
93,995 corpus weight
- tripulação
tripulação
93,993 corpus weight
- trono
trono
93,992 corpus weight
- vós
vós
93,987 corpus weight
- ya
ya
93,986 corpus weight
- amador
amador
93,978 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “ya” 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 | ya |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | /ʝa/ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #6,015 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “ya”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ya is neighbouring look-alikes ("yo", "ye", …), not just typos; it is anadverb pronounced /ʝa/. Frequency #6,015 among 26 “Y” headwords. Gloss: "já".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ya, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "yo", "ye", "you", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is ya, spelled Y-A.
Definition
- 1já
Synonyms
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.