DVD
/de.ve.ˈde/
The verdict
“DVD” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #3,470) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #3,470
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - tipo de disco ótico para armazenar sons, imagens e/ou informações digitais, com capacidade entre 4,7 e 17 GB
Corpus desk
Index PT-dvd · DVD · Portuguese
DVD · rank #3,470 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,470
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH elevado
Nearest frequency peer: elevado (+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 “DVD”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- composição
composição
96,538 corpus weight
- distante
distante
96,533 corpus weight
- DVD
DVD
96,531 corpus weight
- elevado
elevado
96,530 corpus weight
- ensaio
ensaio
96,529 corpus weight
- folhas
folhas
96,525 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “DVD” 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 | DVD |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | /de.ve.ˈde/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #3,470 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “DVD”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for DVD is neighbouring look-alikes ("de", "do", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced /de.ve.ˈde/. Frequency #3,470 among 1,193 “D” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
DVD doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "de", "do", "da", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is DVD, spelled D-V-D.
Definition
- 1tipo de disco ótico para armazenar sons, imagens e/ou informações digitais, com capacidade entre 4,7 e 17 GB
- 2reprodutor de DVD
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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