dia
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#51
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
dia is aPortuguesenoun. It means: espaço de tempo correspondente à rotação da Terra, que equivale a 23 horas, 56 minutos e 4 segundos Pronounced /'dʒi.a/. It ranks #51 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with do and DJ.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for dia is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, 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.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for dia in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "do", "DJ", "du", and more, 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 dia, spelled D-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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
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Frequency rank: #51 in Portuguese
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