DavivsdeveConfusable pair

Quick tell: Davi is a noun, deve is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Davi” is a noun and “deve” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#5,182
“Davi” frequency rank
#182
“deve” frequency rank
5364
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Davi deve
Definition prenome masculino terceira pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo dever

Letter map: Davi vs deve

Shared letters muted; letters that set Davi and deve apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch
Davi
4 ch
deve

Role in the sentence - Davi and deve

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Davi is anoun and deveaverb. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 5364, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Davi is recorded at frequency rank #5,182, classified as anoun, pronounced /da.ˈvi/.. deve is at rank #182, tagged as averb.

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 5364, this pair ranks #69,269 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of Davi vs deve

Shared letters: dv. Private to "Davi": ai. Private to "deve": e.

"Davi" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "deve" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Daviadvi · daiv · davvi · ddavi · dvai
  • deveddeve · deev · devve · dvee · edve

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "Davi" and "deve" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Davi" is a noun and "deve" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "Davi" or "deve" show up more?
"deve" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #182 in our Portuguese list, against #5,182 for "Davi". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "Davi" and "deve".

  • Full dictionary entry for "Davi" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "deve" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #69,269 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Davi" and "deve" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "dat vs Davi". 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 #69,269 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