zé
Letters
2 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,176
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
zé is aPortuguesenoun. It means: indivíduo comum, do povo It ranks #3,176 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with zu and zen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zé |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #3,176 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for zé is 2 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #3,176 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for zé in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "zu", "zen", "zum", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is zé, spelled Z-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1indivíduo comum, do povo
- 2indivíduo sem importância, que não tem peso social e é destituído de qualquer poder econômico; joão-ninguém
- 3(Derivação: por sinédoque) o conjunto dos pobres, dos indivíduos pertencentes à camada inferior de uma sociedade; plebe, ralé
- 4indivíduo pouco inteligente, ignorante, tolo, de pouco valor; pateta, pacóvio, toleirão
- 5o órgão genital masculino; pênis
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Frequency rank: #3,176 in Portuguese
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