via
/ˈvi.ɐ/
The verdict
“via” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #546) as a preposition. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #546
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 501
- “V” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - através de, por meio de, pelo caminho de, usando como recurso
Corpus desk
Index PT-via · via · Portuguese
via · rank #546 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #546
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 501
- PHOTO-FINISH acha
Nearest frequency peer: acha (+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 “via”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- situação
situação
99,458 corpus weight
- sério
sério
99,457 corpus weight
- via
via
99,455 corpus weight
- acha
acha
99,454 corpus weight
- amanhã
amanhã
99,453 corpus weight
- caminho
caminho
99,452 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “via” 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 | via |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| IPA | /ˈvi.ɐ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #546 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “via”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for via is neighbouring look-alikes ("viu", "voz", …), not just typos; it is apreposition pronounced /ˈvi.ɐ/. Frequency #546 among 501 “V” headwords. Gloss: "através de, por meio de, pelo caminho de, usando como recurso".
No misspelling variants are generated for via in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "viu", "voz", "vir", 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 is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is via, spelled V-I-A.
Definition
- 1através de, por meio de, pelo caminho de, usando como recurso
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how via appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Soluções políticas via diplomacia.
Nota: As locuções formam, portanto, na maioria das vezes, adjuntos adverbiais de modo.
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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