isso

pron

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#40

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

3

tracked variants

Confusables

15

similar word pairs

isso is aPortuguesepron. It means: essa coisa ou esse assunto; essas coisas; esses assuntos It ranks #40 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with its and isto.

Key facts for isso
PropertyValue
Headwordisso
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechPron
Letters4
Frequency rank#40
Misspellings tracked3
Confusable pairs15
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of isso in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for isso is 4 letters long, classified as apron. Corpus data places it at rank #40 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 3 documented wrong-spelling variants for isso, with forms such as "iso", "isos", and "siso". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "its", "isto", "issue", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is isso, spelled I-S-S-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    essa coisa ou esse assunto; essas coisas; esses assuntos
  2. 2
    referência a coisa específica que está perto da pessoa com quem se fala ou a assunto acabado de discutir

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: iso,isos,siso

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for isso

Misspelling Variants of "isso"

iso3isos4siso4
Misspelling Variants of "isso"

Frequency rank: #40 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "isso"?
"isso" is spelled I-S-S-O.
What does "isso" mean?
As a pron, "isso" means: essa coisa ou esse assunto; essas coisas; esses assuntos
What words are commonly confused with "isso"?
"isso" is commonly confused with "its", "isto", "issue". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "isso" come from?
"isso" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter I in our Portuguese index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.