dia
/'dʒi.a/
The verdict
“dia” is in the everyday core of Portuguese, ranked #51 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #51
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - espaço de tempo correspondente à rotação da Terra, que equivale a 23 horas, 56 minutos e 4 segundos
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) |
Where “dia” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for dia is 3 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /'dʒi.a/. Corpus data places it at rank #51 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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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Using “dia”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is D-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /'dʒi.a/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “do” - see the side-by-side comparison. dia vs do
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.