oni

pron

The verdict

“oni” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #49,618) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#49,618
frequency rank, Portuguese
385
“O” headwords
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - pronome pessoal do caso nominativo da terceira pessoa do plural de gênero masculino pessoal, eles

Corpus desk

Index PT-oni · oni · Portuguese

oni · rank #49,618 · 0 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #49,618
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 385
  • PHOTO-FINISH ortopedista

Nearest frequency peer: ortopedista (+5 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 “oni”

Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo

corpus weight

What this shows As barras situam “oni” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

oni vs os
33% similar
oni vs ou
33% similar
oni vs or
33% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for oni
PropertyValue
Headwordoni
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechPronoun
Letters3
Frequency rank#49,618
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “oni”

Da esquerda para a direita: o pouco que carrega a fala diária, depois a cauda longa quase invisível.onicai aqui:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

A escala é logarítmica (cada marca ≈ 10× mais rara). Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “ortopedista” (#49,623), “noon” (#49,607), “naturalismo” (#49,603). Entre 385 lemas com “O”, “oni” fica em #49,618. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for oni is neighbouring look-alikes ("os", "ou", …), not just typos; it is apronoun. Frequency #49,618 among 385 “O” headwords. Gloss: "pronome pessoal do caso nominativo da terceira pessoa do plural de gênero masculino pessoal, eles".

Zero misspellings are on record for oni in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "os", "ou", "or", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 oni, spelled O-N-I.

Definition

  1. 1
    pronome pessoal do caso nominativo da terceira pessoa do plural de gênero masculino pessoal, eles

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how oni appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. To są Pedro i João. Oni są Portugalczykami.
  2. W klasie jest 22 mężczyzn i 13 kobiet. Oni są studentami.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "oni"?
"oni" is spelled O-N-I.
What does "oni" mean?
As a pronoun, "oni" means: pronome pessoal do caso nominativo da terceira pessoa do plural de gênero masculino pessoal, eles
What words are commonly confused with "oni"?
"oni" is commonly confused with "os", "ou", "or". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "oni" come from?
"oni" is a Portuguese word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "oni", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list