ui
Letters
2 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,875
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
ui is anPortugueseintj. It means: exprime surpresa, admiração, repugnância Pronounced /ˈuj/. Often confused with um and us.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ui |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Intj |
| IPA | /ˈuj/ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #19,875 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for ui is 2 letters long, classified as anintj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈuj/. Corpus data places it at rank #19,875 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ui in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "um", "us", "ur", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is ui, spelled U-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1exprime surpresa, admiração, repugnância
- 2exprime que se sente dor ou desconforto
- 3exprime rejeição, repulsa, resistência a algo
- 4expressa deboche em relação a ato considerado melindroso ou efeminado
- 5expressa prazer conforme sensação reativa corporal involutária a estímulo de contato
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #19,875 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter U in our Portuguese index: