disso
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#256
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
19
similar word pairs
disso is aPortuguesecontraction. It means: contração da preposição de com o pronome demonstrativo isso: Pronounced /ˈdi.su/. It ranks #256 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with disto and dorso.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | disso |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Contraction |
| IPA | /ˈdi.su/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #256 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for disso is 5 letters long, classified as acontraction, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈdi.su/. Corpus data places it at rank #256 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for disso, with forms such as "ddisso", "diso", and "disos". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "disto", "dorso", "Dio", 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 disso, spelled D-I-S-S-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1contração da preposição de com o pronome demonstrativo isso:
- 2contração da preposição de com o pronome demonstrativo isso:
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddisso,diso,disos,dsiso,idsso
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for disso
Misspelling Variants of "disso"
Frequency rank: #256 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter D in our Portuguese index: