qui
/Ki/
The verdict
“qui” sits in 18 confusable pairs (corpus #9,094) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,094
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 129
- “Q” headwords
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - que relativo; o qual, a qual, os quais, as quais
Corpus desk
Index PT-qui · qui · Portuguese
qui · rank #9,094 · 0 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,094
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 129
- PHOTO-FINISH raposa
Nearest frequency peer: raposa (+2 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 “qui”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- pesar
pesar
90,913 corpus weight
- pi
pi
90,912 corpus weight
- poupar
poupar
90,911 corpus weight
- qui
qui
90,907 corpus weight
- raposa
raposa
90,905 corpus weight
- restaurar
restaurar
90,901 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “qui” 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 | qui |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | /Ki/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #9,094 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “qui”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for qui is neighbouring look-alikes ("quis", "quit", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced /Ki/. Frequency #9,094 among 129 “Q” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for qui in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "quis", "quit", "quilo", 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 easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is qui, spelled Q-U-I.
Definition
- 1que relativo; o qual, a qual, os quais, as quais
- 2quem interrogativo
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how qui appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nota: Refere
Une femme qui parle trois langues.
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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