zu
/t͡suː/
The verdict
“zu” sits in 8 confusable pairs (corpus #39,935) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #39,935
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 42
- “Z” headwords
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - fechado
Corpus desk
Index PT-zu · zu · Portuguese
zu · rank #39,935 · 0 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,935
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 42
- PHOTO-FINISH égide
Nearest frequency peer: égide (+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 “zu”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- went
went
60,074 corpus weight
- yakuza
yakuza
60,068 corpus weight
- zu
zu
60,066 corpus weight
- égide
égide
60,065 corpus weight
- abad
abad
60,060 corpus weight
- abdómen
abdómen
60,059 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “zu” 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 | zu |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /t͡suː/ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #39,935 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “zu”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for zu is neighbouring look-alikes ("zum", "zulu", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced /t͡suː/. Frequency #39,935 among 42 “Z” headwords. Gloss: "fechado".
Zero misspellings are on record for zu in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "zum", "zulu", "zé", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is zu, spelled Z-U.
Definition
- 1fechado
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how zu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Deer waar zu.
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.