nisso

contraction

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,441

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

5

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

nisso is aPortuguesecontraction. It means: contração da preposição em com o pronome demonstrativo isso It ranks #1,441 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with nessa and ninho.

Key facts for nisso
PropertyValue
Headwordnisso
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechContraction
Letters5
Frequency rank#1,441
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of nisso in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for nisso is 5 letters long, classified as acontraction. Corpus data places it at rank #1,441 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "contração da preposição em com o pronome demonstrativo isso".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for nisso, with forms such as "insso", "niso", and "nisos". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "nessa", "ninho", "nicho", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is nisso, spelled N-I-S-S-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    contração da preposição em com o pronome demonstrativo isso

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: insso,niso,nisos,nnisso,nsiso

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for nisso

Misspelling Variants of "nisso"

insso5niso4nisos5nnisso6nsiso5
Misspelling Variants of "nisso"

Frequency rank: #1,441 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "nisso"?
"nisso" is spelled N-I-S-S-O.
What does "nisso" mean?
As a contraction, "nisso" means: contração da preposição em com o pronome demonstrativo isso
What words are commonly confused with "nisso"?
"nisso" is commonly confused with "nessa", "ninho", "nicho". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "nisso" come from?
"nisso" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter N in our Portuguese index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.