die
/di/
The verdict
“die” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #12,038) as an article. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #12,038
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - o, a, os, as, artigo definido:
Corpus desk
Index PT-die · die · Portuguese
die · rank #12,038 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,038
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH designação
Nearest frequency peer: designação (-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 “die”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- cunhada
cunhada
87,971 corpus weight
- descarga
descarga
87,967 corpus weight
- designação
designação
87,964 corpus weight
- die
die
87,963 corpus weight
- dobrar
dobrar
87,958 corpus weight
- ecrã
ecrã
87,955 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “die” 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 | die |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Article |
| IPA | /di/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #12,038 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “die”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for die is neighbouring look-alikes ("do", "DJ", …), not just typos; it is anarticle pronounced /di/. Frequency #12,038 among 1,193 “D” headwords. Gloss: "o, a, os, as, artigo definido:".
Zero misspellings are on record for die in our index, 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, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is die, spelled D-I-E.
Definition
- 1o, a, os, as, artigo definido:
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how die appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die man wat hier gebly het was 'n Amerikaner.
Die kinders praat Afrikaans.
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).