ye
The verdict
“ye” sits in 8 confusable pairs (corpus #25,865) as an article. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #25,865
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 26
- “Y” headwords
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - forma pseudoarcaica do artigo definido the; o, a, os, as
Corpus desk
Index PT-ye · ye · Portuguese
ye · rank #25,865 · 0 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,865
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 26
- PHOTO-FINISH wen
Nearest frequency peer: wen (-3 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 “ye”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- treme
treme
74,149 corpus weight
- wen
wen
74,139 corpus weight
- ye
ye
74,136 corpus weight
- abalo
abalo
74,131 corpus weight
- academic
academic
74,128 corpus weight
- account
account
74,127 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “ye” 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 | ye |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Article |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #25,865 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “ye”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ye is neighbouring look-alikes ("yo", "you", …), not just typos; it is anarticle. Frequency #25,865 among 26 “Y” headwords. Gloss: "forma pseudoarcaica do artigo definido the; o, a, os, as".
Zero misspellings are on record for ye in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "yo", "you", "yes", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is ye, spelled Y-E.
Definition
- 1forma pseudoarcaica do artigo definido the; o, a, os, as
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ye appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
ye olde shoppe
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.