du
/du:/ ouvir^(fonte ?)
The verdict
“du” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #5,187) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #5,187
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - você, tu
Corpus desk
Index PT-du · du · Portuguese
du · rank #5,187 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,187
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH diária
Nearest frequency peer: diária (-2 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 “du”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- Davi
Davi
94,819 corpus weight
- deitar
deitar
94,818 corpus weight
- diária
diária
94,816 corpus weight
- du
du
94,814 corpus weight
- eficiente
eficiente
94,812 corpus weight
- entendimento
entendimento
94,810 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “du” 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 | du |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | /du:/ ouvir^(fonte ?) |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #5,187 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “du”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for du is neighbouring look-alikes ("DVD", "duo", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced /du:/ ouvir^(fonte ?). Frequency #5,187 among 1,193 “D” headwords. Gloss: "você, tu".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for du, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "DVD", "duo", "due", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is du, spelled D-U.
Definition
- 1você, tu
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how du appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Du hast mich.
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.