gli
/ʎi/
The verdict
“gli” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #74,777 among 521 “G” headwords), classed as an article. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,777
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 521
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - os, artigo definido masculino plural:
Corpus desk
Index PT-gli · gli · Portuguese
gli · rank #74,777 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,777
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 521
- PHOTO-FINISH girino
Nearest frequency peer: girino (-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.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “gli”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- fruição
fruição
25,243 corpus weight
- gerúndio
gerúndio
25,227 corpus weight
- girino
girino
25,225 corpus weight
- gli
gli
25,224 corpus weight
- guilt
guilt
25,214 corpus weight
- hater
hater
25,207 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “gli” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gli |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Article |
| IPA | /ʎi/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #74,777 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “gli” em português
Rare enough to double-check
gli is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #74,777 among 521 “G” headwords, classed as anarticle, transcribed /ʎi/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "os, artigo definido masculino plural:".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for gli, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is gli, spelled G-L-I.
Definition
- 1os, artigo definido masculino plural:
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gli appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Gli italiani non sono d'accordo su molte cose sul come cucinare la pasta e soprattutto sul condimento.
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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