ki
/ˈkiː/
The verdict
“ki” sits in 17 confusable pairs (corpus #10,029) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #10,029
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 95
- “K” headwords
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - cão (mamífero domesticado - Canis lupus familiaris)
Corpus desk
Index PT-ki · ki · Portuguese
ki · rank #10,029 · 0 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,029
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 95
- PHOTO-FINISH joan
Nearest frequency peer: joan (-2 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 “ki”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- insistir
insistir
89,979 corpus weight
- into
into
89,977 corpus weight
- irlandês
irlandês
89,976 corpus weight
- joan
joan
89,974 corpus weight
- ki
ki
89,972 corpus weight
- legitimidade
legitimidade
89,970 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “ki” 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 | ki |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkiː/ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #10,029 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “ki”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ki is neighbouring look-alikes ("ko", "kia", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈkiː/. Frequency #10,029 among 95 “K” headwords. Gloss: "cão (mamífero domesticado - Canis lupus familiaris)".
ki doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "ko", "kia", "king", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 ki, spelled K-I.
Definition
- 1cão (mamífero domesticado - Canis lupus familiaris)
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.