oni
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
- naturalismo
naturalismo
50,398 corpus weight
- noon
noon
50,394 corpus weight
- oni
oni
50,383 corpus weight
- ortopedista
ortopedista
50,378 corpus weight
- plâncton
plâncton
50,360 corpus weight
- polinização
polinização
50,359 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “oni” 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 | oni |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #49,618 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “oni”
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
- 1pronome pessoal do caso nominativo da terceira pessoa do plural de gênero masculino pessoal, eles
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how oni appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
To są Pedro i João. Oni są Portugalczykami.
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.
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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).