hoje
The verdict
“hoje” is in the everyday core of Portuguese, ranked #117 in Portuguese word frequency and used as an adverb.
- #117
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 4
- letters
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - o dia atual, aquele em que se está
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 | hoje |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #117 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hoje” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for hoje is 4 letters long, classified as an adverb. Corpus data places it at rank #117 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "o dia atual, aquele em que se está".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for hoje, with forms such as "hhoje", "hjoe", and "hoej". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hot", "hon", "hora", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is hoje, spelled H-O-J-E.
Definition
- 1o dia atual, aquele em que se está
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: hhoje,hjoe,hoej,hojje,ohje
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hoje - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “hoje”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is H-O-J-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “hot” - see the side-by-side comparison. hoje vs hot
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.