ji

pron

The verdict

“ji” sits in 12 confusable pairs (corpus #16,101) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#16,101
frequency rank, Portuguese
196
“J” headwords
12
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - terceira pessoa do singular do caso acusativo do ona

Corpus desk

Index PT-ji · ji · Portuguese

ji · rank #16,101 · 0 variants · 12 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #16,101
  • LEN-SHORT 2 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 196
  • PHOTO-FINISH laje

Nearest frequency peer: laje (+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 “ji”

Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo

corpus weight

What this shows As barras situam “ji” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

ji vs jo
50% similar
ji vs joy
33% similar
ji vs job
33% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for ji
PropertyValue
Headwordji
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechPronoun
Letters2
Frequency rank#16,101
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs12
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “ji”

Da esquerda para a direita: o pouco que carrega a fala diária, depois a cauda longa quase invisível.jicai aqui:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

O eixo é logarítmico: cada tick marca cerca de dez vezes menos frequência. Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “laje” (#16,102), “islamismo” (#16,098), “longevidade” (#16,106). Entre 196 lemas com “J”, “ji” fica em #16,101. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for ji is neighbouring look-alikes ("jo", "joy", …), not just typos; it is apronoun. Frequency #16,101 among 196 “J” headwords. Gloss: "terceira pessoa do singular do caso acusativo do ona".

Zero misspellings are on record for ji in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "jo", "joy", "job", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is ji, spelled J-I.

Definition

  1. 1
    terceira pessoa do singular do caso acusativo do ona

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how ji appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Je jí 12 (let).

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ji"?
"ji" is spelled J-I.
What does "ji" mean?
As a pronoun, "ji" means: terceira pessoa do singular do caso acusativo do ona
What words are commonly confused with "ji"?
"ji" is commonly confused with "jo", "joy", "job". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "ji" come from?
"ji" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list