dalivsdaquiConfusable pair

Which to use

“dali” and “daqui” are a confusable Portuguese pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#6,049
“dali” frequency rank
#644
“daqui” frequency rank
6693
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature dali daqui
Definition contração da preposição de com o advérbio de lugar ali: contração da preposição de com o advérbio de lugar aqui:

Letter map: dali vs daqui

Shared letters muted; letters that set dali and daqui apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

4 ch
dali
5 ch
daqui

Pair insight - dali / daqui

dali and daqui are indexed as a confusable Portuguese pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 6693, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

dali is recorded at frequency rank #6,049, classified as acontraction. daqui is at rank #644, tagged as acontraction.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 6693, this pair ranks #67,677 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of dali vs daqui

Shared letters: adi. Private to "dali": l. Private to "daqui": qu.

"dali" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "daqui" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • daliadli · dail · dalli · ddali · dlai
  • daquiadqui · daqiu · daqqui · dauqi · ddaqui · dqaui

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "dali" and "daqui" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "dali" or "daqui" show up more?
"daqui" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #644 in our Portuguese list, against #6,049 for "dali". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "dali" and "daqui".

  • Full dictionary entry for "dali" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "daqui" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #67,677 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "dali" and "daqui" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "dali vs dat". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #67,677 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list