das vs disk, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#35
“das” frequency rank: #25,980
“disk” frequency rank: 26015
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	das	disk
Definition	da preposição de com o artigo definido feminino plural as	disque

Letter map: das vs disk

Shared letters muted; letters that set das and disk apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

3 ch

das

4 ch

disk

Part-of-speech tell for das / disk

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: das is acontraction and diskanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 26015, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

das is recorded at frequency rank #35, classified as acontraction, pronounced /dɐs/. disk is at rank #25,980, tagged as anoun.

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 26015, this pair ranks #43,210 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of das vs disk

Shared letters: ds. Private to "das": a. Private to "disk": ik.

"das" · 3 letters · shape CVC · "disk" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

disk ← ddisk · diks · diskk · dissk · dsik · idsk

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "das" and "disk" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "das" is a contraction and "disk" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Frequency check: "das" vs "disk" - which ranks higher?

"das" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #35 in our Portuguese list, against #25,980 for "disk". 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 "das" and "disk".

Full dictionary entry for "das" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "disk" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #43,210 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"das" and "disk" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "dink vs disk". 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 #43,210 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.