dy
/dy/
The verdict
“dy” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #59,681 among 1,193 “D” headwords), classed as a numeral. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,681
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - dois (2, II)
Corpus desk
Index PT-dy · dy · Portuguese
dy · rank #59,681 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,681
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH doutro
Nearest frequency peer: doutro (-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.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “dy”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- deferência
deferência
40,342 corpus weight
- dinamizar
dinamizar
40,329 corpus weight
- dobradiça
dobradiça
40,328 corpus weight
- doutro
doutro
40,322 corpus weight
- dy
dy
40,320 corpus weight
- endossar
endossar
40,302 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “dy” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dy |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Numeral |
| IPA | /dy/ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #59,681 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “dy” em português
Rare enough to double-check
dy is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #59,681 among 1,193 “D” headwords, classed as anumeral, transcribed /dy/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "dois (2, II)".
dy doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is dy, spelled D-Y.
Definition
- 1dois (2, II)
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.