yet
The verdict
“yet” sits in 8 confusable pairs (corpus #33,666) as a conjunction. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #33,666
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 26
- “Y” headwords
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mas, contudo, todavia
Corpus desk
Index PT-yet · yet · Portuguese
yet · rank #33,666 · 0 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,666
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 26
- PHOTO-FINISH Wanessa
Nearest frequency peer: Wanessa (-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 “yet”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- ven
ven
66,345 corpus weight
- ventania
ventania
66,343 corpus weight
- videoconfer…
videoconferência
66,341 corpus weight
- Wanessa
Wanessa
66,337 corpus weight
- yet
yet
66,335 corpus weight
- adult
adult
66,323 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “yet” 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 | yet |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Conjunction |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #33,666 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “yet”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for yet is neighbouring look-alikes ("yo", "you", …), not just typos; it is aconjunction. Frequency #33,666 among 26 “Y” headwords. Gloss: "mas, contudo, todavia".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for yet, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "yo", "you", "y", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is yet, spelled Y-E-T.
Definition
- 1mas, contudo, todavia
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how yet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I thought I knew you, yet how wrong I was.
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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