dia
/'dʒi.a/
The verdict
“dia” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #51) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #51
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - espaço de tempo correspondente à rotação da Terra, que equivale a 23 horas, 56 minutos e 4 segundos
Corpus desk
Index PT-dia · dia · Portuguese
dia · rank #51 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #51
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH só
Nearest frequency peer: só (-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 “dia”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- ela
ela
99,953 corpus weight
- vai
vai
99,952 corpus weight
- só
só
99,951 corpus weight
- dia
dia
99,950 corpus weight
- sobre
sobre
99,948 corpus weight
- bem
bem
99,947 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “dia” 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 | dia |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /'dʒi.a/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #51 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “dia”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for dia is neighbouring look-alikes ("do", "DJ", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /'dʒi.a/. Frequency #51 among 1,193 “D” headwords. 5 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for dia, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "do", "DJ", "du", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 dia, spelled D-I-A.
Definition
- 1espaço de tempo correspondente à rotação da Terra, que equivale a 23 horas, 56 minutos e 4 segundos
- 2espaço de 24 horas
- 3parte do dia entre o nascer-do-sol e o pôr-do-sol
- 4ciclo entre a meia-noite e a meia-noite seguinte
- 5unidade de medida de tempo equivalente a 86.400 segundos e que é simbolizada por d
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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