yat
/jat/
The verdict
“yat” sits in 9 confusable pairs (corpus #44,170) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #44,170
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 26
- “Y” headwords
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - esquilo
Corpus desk
Index PT-yat · yat · Portuguese
yat · rank #44,170 · 0 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,170
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 26
- PHOTO-FINISH zag
Nearest frequency peer: zag (+2 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 “yat”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- wir
wir
55,834 corpus weight
- yat
yat
55,831 corpus weight
- zag
zag
55,829 corpus weight
- íon
íon
55,827 corpus weight
- ú
ú
55,826 corpus weight
- abóbada
abóbada
55,822 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “yat” 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 | yat |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /jat/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #44,170 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “yat”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for yat is neighbouring look-alikes ("yo", "ye", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /jat/. Frequency #44,170 among 26 “Y” headwords. Gloss: "esquilo".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for yat, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is yat, spelled Y-A-T.
Definition
- 1esquilo
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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).