rio
/ʁi.u/ [ʁiu̯]
The verdict
“rio” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #173) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #173
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 963
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - curso por onde passa água doce continuamente (ou durante épocas específicas do ano)
Corpus desk
Index PT-rio · rio · Portuguese
rio · rank #173 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #173
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 963
- PHOTO-FINISH pouco
Nearest frequency peer: pouco (-1 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 “rio”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- ficar
ficar
99,832 corpus weight
- mãe
mãe
99,831 corpus weight
- pouco
pouco
99,829 corpus weight
- rio
rio
99,828 corpus weight
- segundo
segundo
99,827 corpus weight
- disse
disse
99,825 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “rio” 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 | rio |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ʁi.u/ [ʁiu̯] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #173 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “rio”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for rio is neighbouring look-alikes ("rua", "run", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ʁi.u/ [ʁiu̯]. Frequency #173 among 963 “R” headwords. Gloss: "curso por onde passa água doce continuamente (ou durante épocas específicas do ano)".
rio has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "rua", "run", "rue", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 rio, spelled R-I-O.
Definition
- 1curso por onde passa água doce continuamente (ou durante épocas específicas do ano)
This word in other languages
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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