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

#644
“daqui” frequency rank
#4,304
“daquilo” frequency rank
4948
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature daqui daquilo
Definition contração da preposição de com o advérbio de lugar aqui: contração da preposição de com o pronome demonstrativo aquilo:

Letter map: daqui vs daquilo

Shared letters muted; letters that set daqui and daquilo apart highlighted. Shared run: 5.

5 ch
daqui
7 ch
daquilo

Corpus notes: daqui and daquilo

daqui and daquilo 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 2 extra letter(s) - “daqui” sits inside “daquilo”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 4948, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

daqui is recorded at frequency rank #644, classified as acontraction. daquilo is at rank #4,304, tagged as acontraction, pronounced /dɐ.ˈki.lu/.

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 4948, this pair ranks #69,787 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of daqui vs daquilo

Shared letters: adiqu. Private to "daqui": -. Private to "daquilo": lo.

"daqui" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV  ·  "daquilo" · 7 letters · shape CVCVVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • daquiadqui · daqiu · daqqui · dauqi · ddaqui · dqaui
  • daquiloadquilo · daqiulo · daqquilo · daquillo · daquiol · daqulio · dauqilo · ddaquilo

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "daqui" for "daquilo" ever safe?
No. They differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “daqui” sits inside “daquilo”, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Which is more common, "daqui" or "daquilo"?
"daqui" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #644 in our Portuguese list, against #4,304 for "daquilo". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pair "daqui" vs "daquilo" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "daqui" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "daquilo" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #69,787 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "daqui" and "daquilo" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "daqui vs duque". 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 #69,787 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