io
/ˈi.o/, /ˈi.ɔ/
The verdict
“io” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #18,900) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #18,900
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 938
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sempre
Corpus desk
Index PT-io · io · Portuguese
io · rank #18,900 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,900
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 938
- PHOTO-FINISH invicto
Nearest frequency peer: invicto (-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 “io”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- inchaço
inchaço
81,107 corpus weight
- induzir
induzir
81,105 corpus weight
- insanidade
insanidade
81,104 corpus weight
- intacto
intacto
81,103 corpus weight
- invicto
invicto
81,102 corpus weight
- io
io
81,101 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “io” 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 | io |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | /ˈi.o/, /ˈi.ɔ/ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #18,900 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “io”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for io is neighbouring look-alikes ("ir", "is", …), not just typos; it is anadverb pronounced /ˈi.o/, /ˈi.ɔ/. Frequency #18,900 among 938 “I” headwords. Gloss: "sempre".
No generated misspelling entries exist for io in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ir", "is", "it", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is io, spelled I-O.
Definition
- 1sempre
Antonyms
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.