íon vs it, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“íon” is a noun and “it” is a pronoun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#44,174
“íon” frequency rank: #1,934
“it” frequency rank: 46108
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	íon	it
Definition	espécie química eletricamente carregada, geralmente um átomo ou molécula que perdeu ou ganhou elétrons	caso nominativo da terceira pessoa neutra do singular, ele, ela, ile

Letter map: íon vs it

Shared letters muted; letters that set íon and it apart highlighted. No shared letter run.

3 ch

íon

2 ch

Part-of-speech tell for íon / it

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: íon is anoun and itapronoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 46108, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

íon is recorded at frequency rank #44,174, classified as anoun. it is at rank #1,934, tagged as apron, pronounced /ɪt/.

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 46108, this pair ranks #19,245 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of íon vs it

Shared letters: none. Private to "íon": noí. Private to "it": it.

"íon" · 3 letters · shape VVC · "it" · 2 letters · shape VC

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "íon" for "it" ever safe?

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

Frequency check: "íon" vs "it" - which ranks higher?

"it" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,934 in our Portuguese list, against #44,174 for "íon". 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 "íon" and "it".

Full dictionary entry for "íon" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "it" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #19,245 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"íon" and "it" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "ino vs íon". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #19,245 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.