lide
/ˈli.dɨ/
The verdict
“lide” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #23,388) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #23,388
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 581
- “L” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - trabalho árduo
Corpus desk
Index PT-lide · lide · Portuguese
lide · rank #23,388 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,388
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 581
- PHOTO-FINISH legista
Nearest frequency peer: legista (-3 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 “lide”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- industry
industry
76,631 corpus weight
- internacion…
internacionalização
76,624 corpus weight
- legista
legista
76,616 corpus weight
- lide
lide
76,613 corpus weight
- magnata
magnata
76,605 corpus weight
- mamão
mamão
76,602 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “lide” 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 | lide |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈli.dɨ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #23,388 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “lide”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for lide is neighbouring look-alikes ("lim", "lip", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈli.dɨ/. Frequency #23,388 among 581 “L” headwords. 5 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for lide, with forms such as "ilde", "ldie", and "lidde". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lim", "lip", "lie", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is lide, spelled L-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1trabalho árduo
- 2combate
- 3questão judicial em que uma das partes resiste ao pedido da outra parte
- 4toureação
- 5pequeno trecho textual inicial que dá mostra em linhas gerais do que será tratado no corpo de um artigo
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ilde
- ldie
- lidde
- llide
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lide - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "lide", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).