yo
/ʝo/
The verdict
“yo” sits in 8 confusable pairs (corpus #6,493) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #6,493
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 26
- “Y” headwords
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eu
Corpus desk
Index PT-yo · yo · Portuguese
yo · rank #6,493 · 0 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,493
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 26
- PHOTO-FINISH Xavier
Nearest frequency peer: Xavier (-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 “yo”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- vier
vier
93,514 corpus weight
- violento
violento
93,513 corpus weight
- Xavier
Xavier
93,509 corpus weight
- yo
yo
93,508 corpus weight
- acalmar
acalmar
93,506 corpus weight
- adquirir
adquirir
93,504 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “yo” 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 | yo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | /ʝo/ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #6,493 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “yo”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for yo is neighbouring look-alikes ("you", "your", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced /ʝo/. Frequency #6,493 among 26 “Y” headwords. Gloss: "eu".
yo doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "you", "your", "y", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 yo, spelled Y-O.
Definition
- 1eu
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.