ali
/ɐ.ˈli/
The verdict
“ali” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #593) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #593
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - naquele lugar
Corpus desk
Index PT-ali · ali · Portuguese
ali · rank #593 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #593
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH teu
Nearest frequency peer: teu (-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 “ali”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- seguir
seguir
99,411 corpus weight
- tendo
tendo
99,410 corpus weight
- teu
teu
99,409 corpus weight
- ali
ali
99,408 corpus weight
- ação
ação
99,407 corpus weight
- copa
copa
99,405 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “ali” 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 | ali |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | /ɐ.ˈli/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #593 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “ali”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ali is neighbouring look-alikes ("As", "ao", …), not just typos; it is anadverb pronounced /ɐ.ˈli/. Frequency #593 among 1,900 “A” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ali, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "As", "ao", "ar", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 ali, spelled A-L-I.
Definition
- 1naquele lugar
- 2em lugar que se indica de modo expresso
This word in other languages
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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