zum
/t͡stʊm/
The verdict
“zum” sits in 8 confusable pairs (corpus #43,231) as a preposition. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #43,231
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 42
- “Z” headwords
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ao, à, para o, para a
Corpus desk
Index PT-zum · zum · Portuguese
zum · rank #43,231 · 0 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,231
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 42
- PHOTO-FINISH zeloso
Nearest frequency peer: zeloso (-3 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 “zum”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- zeloso
zeloso
56,773 corpus weight
- zum
zum
56,770 corpus weight
- ágata
ágata
56,767 corpus weight
- abortado
abortado
56,761 corpus weight
- abrandar
abrandar
56,760 corpus weight
- accord
accord
56,757 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “zum” 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 | zum |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| IPA | /t͡stʊm/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #43,231 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “zum”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for zum is neighbouring look-alikes ("zé", "za", …), not just typos; it is apreposition pronounced /t͡stʊm/. Frequency #43,231 among 42 “Z” headwords. Gloss: "ao, à, para o, para a".
zum has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "zé", "za", "zu", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is zum, spelled Z-U-M.
Definition
- 1ao, à, para o, para a
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how zum appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Straße führt zum Rathaus der Stadt.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).