CPI
/ce.pe.ˈi/
The verdict
“CPI” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #8,173) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #8,173
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Comissão Parlamentar de Inquérito, espécie de investigação conduzida pelo Poder Legislativo
Corpus desk
Index PT-cpi · CPI · Portuguese
CPI · rank #8,173 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,173
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH cruzar
Nearest frequency peer: cruzar (+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 “CPI”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- charme
charme
91,836 corpus weight
- comunitário
comunitário
91,832 corpus weight
- conceder
conceder
91,831 corpus weight
- CPI
CPI
91,828 corpus weight
- cruzar
cruzar
91,827 corpus weight
- desigualdade
desigualdade
91,821 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “CPI” 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 | CPI |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | /ce.pe.ˈi/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #8,173 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “CPI”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for CPI is neighbouring look-alikes ("cu", "cut", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced /ce.pe.ˈi/. Frequency #8,173 among 2,140 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Comissão Parlamentar de Inquérito, espécie de investigação conduzida pelo Poder Legislativo".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for CPI, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cu", "cut", "cry", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is CPI, spelled C-P-I.
Definition
- 1Comissão Parlamentar de Inquérito, espécie de investigação conduzida pelo Poder Legislativo
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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