iu
/ˈi.u/, /ˈi.ʊ/
The verdict
“iu” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #42,065) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #42,065
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 938
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - código de língua ISO 639-3 para a macrolíngua esquimó/inuktitut
Corpus desk
Index PT-iu · iu · Portuguese
iu · rank #42,065 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,065
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 938
- PHOTO-FINISH junio
Nearest frequency peer: junio (+4 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 “iu”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- impermeável
impermeável
57,951 corpus weight
- inflamar
inflamar
57,944 corpus weight
- iu
iu
57,936 corpus weight
- junio
junio
57,932 corpus weight
- klara
klara
57,927 corpus weight
- leaves
leaves
57,922 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “iu” 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 | iu |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | /ˈi.u/, /ˈi.ʊ/ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #42,065 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “iu”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for iu is neighbouring look-alikes ("IVA", "I", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced /ˈi.u/, /ˈi.ʊ/. Frequency #42,065 among 938 “I” headwords. Gloss: "código de língua ISO 639-3 para a macrolíngua esquimó/inuktitut".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for iu, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "IVA", "I", "ir", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is iu, spelled I-U.
Definition
- 1código de língua ISO 639-3 para a macrolíngua esquimó/inuktitut
Synonyms
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.