oi
Letters
2 characters
Frequency Rank
#631
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
oi is anPortugueseintj. It means: expressa cumprimento que se faz ao encontrar uma pessoa It ranks #631 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with os and ou.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oi |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Intj |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #631 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for oi is 2 letters long, classified as anintj. Corpus data places it at rank #631 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for oi in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "os", "ou", "on", and more, 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 oi, spelled O-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1expressa cumprimento que se faz ao encontrar uma pessoa
- 2expressa resposta que se dá quando se é chamado indicando que se está presente a prestar atenção
- 3expressa chamamento à atenção de alguém em específico
- 4expressa chamamento à atenção em situações em que não se sabe da presença ou não de alguém no recinto ou local
- 5expressa estado de pasmo ante uma implausibilidade enorme ocorrida ou algo confusamente difícil de crer como factualidade
- 6expressa incompreensão a algo dito e demonstra que se quer que seja repetido ou feito se entender o que se pretendia comunicar
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #631 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter O in our Portuguese index: