ie
/ˈi.e/, /ˈi.ɛ/
The verdict
“ie” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #27,130) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #27,130
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 938
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - água (H₂0).
Corpus desk
Index PT-ie · ie · Portuguese
ie · rank #27,130 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,130
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 938
- PHOTO-FINISH ilegítimo
Nearest frequency peer: ilegítimo (+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 “ie”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- hem
hem
72,877 corpus weight
- hidratante
hidratante
72,876 corpus weight
- ie
ie
72,871 corpus weight
- ilegítimo
ilegítimo
72,870 corpus weight
- imprevisto
imprevisto
72,869 corpus weight
- inversamente
inversamente
72,860 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “ie” 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 | ie |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈi.e/, /ˈi.ɛ/ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #27,130 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “ie”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ie is neighbouring look-alikes ("ir", "in", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈi.e/, /ˈi.ɛ/. Frequency #27,130 among 938 “I” headwords. Gloss: "água (H₂0).".
No misspelling variants are generated for ie in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ir", "in", "is", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is ie, spelled I-E.
Definition
- 1água (H₂0).
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.