isso
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | isso |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Pron |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #40 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1essa coisa ou esse assunto; essas coisas; esses assuntos
- 2referência 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"
Frequency rank: #40 in Portuguese
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Other entries that begin with the letter I in our Portuguese index: