kia
/kiɐ˦/
The verdict
“kia” sits in 18 confusable pairs (corpus #31,842) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #31,842
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 95
- “K” headwords
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - lá, lá adiante
Corpus desk
Index PT-kia · kia · Portuguese
kia · rank #31,842 · 0 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,842
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 95
- PHOTO-FINISH kiwi
Nearest frequency peer: kiwi (+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 “kia”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- injetar
injetar
68,176 corpus weight
- instaurar
instaurar
68,173 corpus weight
- insígnia
insígnia
68,172 corpus weight
- kia
kia
68,159 corpus weight
- kiwi
kiwi
68,157 corpus weight
- legitimamen…
legitimamente
68,151 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “kia” 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 | kia |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | /kiɐ˦/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #31,842 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “kia”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for kia is neighbouring look-alikes ("ko", "king", …), not just typos; it is anadverb pronounced /kiɐ˦/. Frequency #31,842 among 95 “K” headwords. Gloss: "lá, lá adiante".
Zero misspellings are on record for kia in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "ko", "king", "kiss", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is kia, spelled K-I-A.
Definition
- 1lá, lá adiante
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.
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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).