ahi
/a.i/
The verdict
“ahi” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #65,246 among 1,900 “A” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,246
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ai(!) (expressa dor).
Corpus desk
Index PT-ahi · ahi · Portuguese
ahi · rank #65,246 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,246
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH afasia
Nearest frequency peer: afasia (-4 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.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “ahi”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- abrasivo
abrasivo
34,769 corpus weight
- acudir
acudir
34,765 corpus weight
- admiravelme…
admiravelmente
34,762 corpus weight
- afasia
afasia
34,759 corpus weight
- ahi
ahi
34,755 corpus weight
- alternado
alternado
34,743 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “ahi” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ahi |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | /a.i/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #65,246 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “ahi” em português
Rare enough to double-check
ahi is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #65,246 among 1,900 “A” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed /a.i/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ai(!) (expressa dor).".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ahi, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is ahi, spelled A-H-I.
Definition
- 1ai(!) (expressa dor).
Synonyms
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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