diskvsdissoWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#25,980
“disk” frequency rank
#256
“disso” frequency rank
26236
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature disk disso
Definition disque contração da preposição de com o pronome demonstrativo isso:

Letter map: disk vs disso

Shared letters muted; letters that set disk and disso apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

4 ch
disk
5 ch
disso

Part-of-speech tell for disk / disso

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: disk is anoun and dissoacontraction. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 26236, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

disk is recorded at frequency rank #25,980, classified as anoun. disso is at rank #256, tagged as acontraction, pronounced /ˈdi.su/.

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 26236, this pair ranks #42,954 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of disk vs disso

Shared letters: dis. Private to "disk": k. Private to "disso": o.

"disk" · 4 letters · shape CVCC  ·  "disso" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • diskddisk · diks · diskk · dissk · dsik · idsk
  • dissoddisso · diso · disos · dsiso · idsso

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "disk" and "disso" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "disk" is a noun and "disso" a contraction, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "disk" or "disso" show up more?
"disso" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #256 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.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "disk" and "disso".

  • Full dictionary entry for "disk" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "disso" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #42,954 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "disk" and "disso" 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 #42,954 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