daquivsduqueWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: daqui is a contraction, duque is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“daqui” is a contraction and “duque” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#644
“daqui” frequency rank
#7,145
“duque” frequency rank
7789
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature daqui duque
Definition contração da preposição de com o advérbio de lugar aqui: título nobiliárquico do governante de um ducado

Letter map: daqui vs duque

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

5 ch
daqui
5 ch
duque

Part-of-speech tell for daqui / duque

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: daqui is acontraction and duqueanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 7789, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

daqui is recorded at frequency rank #644, classified as acontraction. duque is at rank #7,145, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˈdu.kɨ/.

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 7789, this pair ranks #66,258 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of daqui vs duque

Shared letters: dqu. Private to "daqui": ai. Private to "duque": e.

"daqui" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV  ·  "duque" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • daquiadqui · daqiu · daqqui · dauqi · ddaqui · dqaui
  • duquedduque · dquue · duqeu · duqque · duuqe · udque

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "daqui" and "duque" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "daqui" is a contraction and "duque" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "daqui" or "duque" show up more?
"daqui" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #644 in our Portuguese list, against #7,145 for "duque". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "daqui" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "duque" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #66,258 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "daqui" and "duque" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "dublê 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 #66,258 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