disto

contraction

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,761

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

disto is aPortuguesecontraction. It means: contração da preposição de com o pronome demonstrativo isto: It ranks #3,761 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with dit and dita.

Key facts for disto
PropertyValue
Headworddisto
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechContraction
Letters5
Frequency rank#3,761
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of disto in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for disto is 5 letters long, classified as acontraction. Corpus data places it at rank #3,761 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for disto, with forms such as "ddisto", "disot", and "dissto". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "dit", "dita", "duto", 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 disto, spelled D-I-S-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    contração da preposição de com o pronome demonstrativo isto:
  2. 2
    contração da preposição de com o pronome demonstrativo isto:

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ddisto,disot,dissto,distto,ditso,dsito,idsto

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for disto

Misspelling Variants of "disto"

ddisto6disot5dissto6distto6ditso5dsito5idsto5
Misspelling Variants of "disto"

Frequency rank: #3,761 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "disto"?
"disto" is spelled D-I-S-T-O.
What does "disto" mean?
As a contraction, "disto" means: contração da preposição de com o pronome demonstrativo isto:
What words are commonly confused with "disto"?
"disto" is commonly confused with "dit", "dita", "duto". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "disto" come from?
"disto" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter D in our Portuguese index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.