ski
/ski/, SAMPA: /ski/
The verdict
“ski” is a moderately-common Portuguese word, ranked #20,135 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #20,135
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - esqui
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 | ski |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ski/, SAMPA: /ski/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #20,135 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ski” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for ski is 3 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ski/, SAMPA: /ski/. Corpus data places it at rank #20,135 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "esqui".
No generated misspelling entries exist for ski in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "só", "su", "SW", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is ski, spelled S-K-I.
Definition
- 1esqui
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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Using “ski”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is S-K-I - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ski/, SAMPA: /ski/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “só” - see the side-by-side comparison. ski vs só
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.