fio
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,904
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
fio is aPortuguesenoun. It means: linha It ranks #3,904 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with foi and for.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fio |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #3,904 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for fio is 3 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #3,904 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for fio in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "foi", "for", "fui", 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 fio, spelled F-I-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1linha
- 2segmento fino, cilíndrico, flexível e alongado de um certo material
- 3parte cortante de facas, navalhas
- 4nos microblogues, conjunto de mensagens pequenas agrupadas de forma a formar um texto maior, devido à limitação de caracteres desses sites
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #3,904 in Portuguese
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