due
/dju/
The verdict
“due” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #24,954) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #24,954
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - devido
Corpus desk
Index PT-due · due · Portuguese
due · rank #24,954 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,954
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH diversificar
Nearest frequency peer: diversificar (-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 “due”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- Dio
Dio
75,055 corpus weight
- divergente
divergente
75,052 corpus weight
- diversificar
diversificar
75,051 corpus weight
- due
due
75,047 corpus weight
- emblemático
emblemático
75,043 corpus weight
- emissor
emissor
75,042 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “due” 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 | due |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /dju/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #24,954 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “due”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for due is neighbouring look-alikes ("DVD", "duo", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced /dju/. Frequency #24,954 among 1,193 “D” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
due has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "DVD", "duo", "dun", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is due, spelled D-U-E.
Definition
- 1devido
- 2esperado
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).