fui
/ˈfuj/
The verdict
“fui” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #365) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #365
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 853
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - primeira pessoa do singular do pretérito perfeito simples do indicativo do verbo ir:
Corpus desk
Index PT-fui · fui · Portuguese
fui · rank #365 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #365
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 853
- PHOTO-FINISH desta
Nearest frequency peer: desta (-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 “fui”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- cerca
cerca
99,639 corpus weight
- corpo
corpo
99,638 corpus weight
- desta
desta
99,637 corpus weight
- fui
fui
99,636 corpus weight
- meses
meses
99,635 corpus weight
- realmente
realmente
99,633 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “fui” 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 | fui |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈfuj/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #365 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “fui”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for fui is neighbouring look-alikes ("fun", "full", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced /ˈfuj/. Frequency #365 among 853 “F” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
fui doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fun", "full", "fumo", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is fui, spelled F-U-I.
Definition
- 1primeira pessoa do singular do pretérito perfeito simples do indicativo do verbo ir:
- 2primeira pessoa do singular do pretérito perfeito simples do indicativo do verbo ser:
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fui appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Apesar da chuva, fui visitar minha tia.
Fui apenas o centésimo no concurso.
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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