zen
/ˈzɛn/
The verdict
“zen” sits in 10 confusable pairs (corpus #13,421) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #13,421
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 42
- “Z” headwords
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - relativo, pertencente a, ou próprio do zen-budismo
Corpus desk
Index PT-zen · zen · Portuguese
zen · rank #13,421 · 0 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,421
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 42
- PHOTO-FINISH épico
Nearest frequency peer: épico (+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 “zen”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- vide
vide
86,584 corpus weight
- vodka
vodka
86,583 corpus weight
- vulgar
vulgar
86,582 corpus weight
- zen
zen
86,580 corpus weight
- épico
épico
86,579 corpus weight
- Abraham
Abraham
86,575 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “zen” 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 | zen |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈzɛn/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #13,421 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “zen”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for zen is neighbouring look-alikes ("zu", "zum", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced /ˈzɛn/. Frequency #13,421 among 42 “Z” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Zero misspellings are on record for zen in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "zu", "zum", "zona", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is zen, spelled Z-E-N.
Definition
- 1relativo, pertencente a, ou próprio do zen-budismo
- 2que é calmo e pacífico
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).