I
/aI/
The verdict
“I” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #286) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #286
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 938
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - caso nominativo da primeira pessoa do singular, eu
Corpus desk
Index PT-i · I · Portuguese
I · rank #286 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #286
- LEN-SHORT 1 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 938
- PHOTO-FINISH brasileiro
Nearest frequency peer: brasileiro (-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 “I”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- morte
morte
99,720 corpus weight
- brasileiro
brasileiro
99,716 corpus weight
- I
I
99,715 corpus weight
- projeto
projeto
99,713 corpus weight
- região
região
99,712 corpus weight
- sair
sair
99,711 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “I” 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 | I |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | /aI/ |
| Letters | 1 |
| Frequency rank | #286 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “I”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for I is neighbouring look-alikes ("ir", "in", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced /aI/. Frequency #286 among 938 “I” headwords. Gloss: "caso nominativo da primeira pessoa do singular, eu".
Zero misspellings are on record for I in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ir", "in", "ia", 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 I, spelled I.
Definition
- 1caso nominativo da primeira pessoa do singular, eu
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how I appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I really want to go out.
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.