zap
/zæp/
The verdict
“zap” sits in 6 confusable pairs (corpus #19,599) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,599
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 42
- “Z” headwords
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - zapar, zapear
Corpus desk
Index PT-zap · zap · Portuguese
zap · rank #19,599 · 0 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,599
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 42
- PHOTO-FINISH zebra
Nearest frequency peer: zebra (+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 “zap”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- varrer
varrer
80,412 corpus weight
- wait
wait
80,407 corpus weight
- zap
zap
80,402 corpus weight
- zebra
zebra
80,401 corpus weight
- Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe
80,400 corpus weight
- ártico
ártico
80,398 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “zap” 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 | zap |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /zæp/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #19,599 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “zap”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for zap is neighbouring look-alikes ("zé", "zu", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced /zæp/. Frequency #19,599 among 42 “Z” headwords. Gloss: "zapar, zapear".
zap doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "zé", "zu", "zen", 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is zap, spelled Z-A-P.
Definition
- 1zapar, zapear
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).