digovsdinkTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#1,331
“digo” frequency rank
#47,848
“dink” frequency rank
49179
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature digo dink
Definition primeira pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo dizer um drop shot suave

Where the eye mixes digo and dink

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence. digo (CVCV) and dink (CVCC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

4 ch
digo
4 ch
dink

Visual trap between digo and dink

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: digo is /ˈʤi.gʊ/ while dink is /dɪŋk/. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 49179, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

digo is recorded at frequency rank #1,331, classified as averb, pronounced /ˈʤi.gʊ/. dink is at rank #47,848, tagged as anoun, pronounced /dɪŋk/.

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 49179, this pair ranks #15,892 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of digo vs dink

Shared letters: di. Private to "digo": go. Private to "dink": kn.

"digo" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "dink" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • digo ← ddigo · dgio · diggo · diog · idgo
  • dink ← ddink · dikn · dinkk · dinnk · dnik · idnk

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "digo" for "dink" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "digo" is a verb and "dink" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "digo" or "dink"?
"digo" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,331 in our Portuguese list, against #47,848 for "dink". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.

  • Full dictionary entry for "digo" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "dink" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #15,892 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "digo" and "dink" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "dink vs dit". 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 #15,892 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