daquilo

//dɐ.ˈki.lu// contraction

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,304

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

daquilo is aPortuguesecontraction. It means: contração da preposição de com o pronome demonstrativo aquilo: Pronounced /dɐ.ˈki.lu/. It ranks #4,304 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with daqui and daquele.

Key facts for daquilo
PropertyValue
Headworddaquilo
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechContraction
IPA/dɐ.ˈki.lu/
Letters7
Frequency rank#4,304
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of daquilo in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for daquilo is 7 letters long, classified as acontraction, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /dɐ.ˈki.lu/. Corpus data places it at rank #4,304 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for daquilo, with forms such as "adquilo", "daqiulo", and "daqquilo". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "daqui", "daquele", "daquela", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is daquilo, spelled D-A-Q-U-I-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    contração da preposição de com o pronome demonstrativo aquilo:
  2. 2
    contração da preposição de com o pronome demonstrativo aquilo:

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: adquilo,daqiulo,daqquilo,daquillo,daquiol,daqulio,dauqilo,ddaquilo,dqauilo

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for daquilo

Misspelling Variants of "daquilo"

adquilo7daqiulo7daqquilo8daquillo8daquiol7daqulio7dauqilo7ddaquilo8
Misspelling Variants of "daquilo"

Frequency rank: #4,304 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "daquilo"?
"daquilo" is spelled D-A-Q-U-I-L-O. The IPA pronunciation is /dɐ.ˈki.lu/.
What does "daquilo" mean?
As a contraction, "daquilo" means: contração da preposição de com o pronome demonstrativo aquilo:
What words are commonly confused with "daquilo"?
"daquilo" is commonly confused with "daqui", "daquele", "daquela". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "daquilo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "daquilo" is /dɐ.ˈki.lu/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "daquilo" come from?
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter D in our Portuguese index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.