dial
/dʒɪˈaw/
The verdict
“dial” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #43,858) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #43,858
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - diário
Corpus desk
Index PT-dial · dial · Portuguese
dial · rank #43,858 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,858
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH dolo
Nearest frequency peer: dolo (+4 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 “dial”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- decompor
decompor
56,157 corpus weight
- desatenção
desatenção
56,154 corpus weight
- desdobrar
desdobrar
56,151 corpus weight
- dial
dial
56,143 corpus weight
- dolo
dolo
56,139 corpus weight
- elegia
elegia
56,133 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “dial” 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 | dial |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /dʒɪˈaw/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #43,858 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “dial”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for dial is neighbouring look-alikes ("diz", "die", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced /dʒɪˈaw/. Frequency #43,858 among 1,193 “D” headwords. Gloss: "diário".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for dial, with forms such as "ddial", "diall", and "dila". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "diz", "die", "Dio", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is dial, spelled D-I-A-L.
Definition
- 1diário
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddial
- diall
- dila
- idal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dial - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).