cio
/ˈsi.u/
The verdict
“cio” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #22,564) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #22,564
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - período de maior apetite sexual e fertilidade de certos animais
Corpus desk
Index PT-cio · cio · Portuguese
cio · rank #22,564 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,564
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH circle
Nearest frequency peer: circle (+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 “cio”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- cher
cher
77,441 corpus weight
- cio
cio
77,437 corpus weight
- circle
circle
77,436 corpus weight
- civilizado
civilizado
77,434 corpus weight
- colossal
colossal
77,431 corpus weight
- combatente
combatente
77,430 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “cio” 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 | cio |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsi.u/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #22,564 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “cio”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for cio is neighbouring look-alikes ("co", "cu", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈsi.u/. Frequency #22,564 among 2,140 “C” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Zero misspellings are on record for cio in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "co", "cu", "com", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 cio, spelled C-I-O.
Definition
- 1período de maior apetite sexual e fertilidade de certos animais
- 2viço; vigor das plantas
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).