hui
The verdict
“hui” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #41,055) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #41,055
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 409
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - hoje
Corpus desk
Index PT-hui · hui · Portuguese
hui · rank #41,055 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,055
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 409
- PHOTO-FINISH hospedaria
Nearest frequency peer: hospedaria (-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.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “hui”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- haxixe
haxixe
58,954 corpus weight
- herege
herege
58,951 corpus weight
- hospedaria
hospedaria
58,948 corpus weight
- hui
hui
58,946 corpus weight
- impuro
impuro
58,937 corpus weight
- imunologia
imunologia
58,935 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “hui” 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 | hui |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #41,055 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “hui”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for hui is neighbouring look-alikes ("hum", "Hut", …), not just typos; it is anadverb. Frequency #41,055 among 409 “H” headwords. Gloss: "hoje".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for hui, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hum", "Hut", "hulk", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is hui, spelled H-U-I.
Definition
- 1hoje
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hui appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Suplantado pela locução lexicalizada aujourd'hui.
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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).