Verdict
dicio.com.br appears legitimate.
Our checks found nothing pointing to fraud. Ordinary care still applies when you pay or sign in.
| What this site appears to be | Dicio is an established online Portuguese dictionary and language resource offering definitions, synonyms, conjugations, writing tools and word games. Monetization is via ads and broad consent-managed data-sharing with many vendors. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN
- The real-world operator identity was not independently verified.
- Module-level completeness metadata is unavailable for this legacy report.
At a glance
The checks that decide most of this verdict.
| Malware engines | None flagged itVirusTotal | Clear |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 18 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Never archivedNo public history of this site | Watch |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by WE1 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
- The operator behind the site could not be independently connected to a real-world brand or person.
Full analysis
Overview
Dicio is an established Portuguese-language online dictionary and writing resource that provides definitions, synonyms, conjugations, text-rewriting and correction tools, AI-text humanization, vocabulary features, and word games. Its apparent business model is a free informational service supported by advertising, consent-managed analytics and data sharing, and onsite promotional placements.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The homepage presents a coherent informational service rather than a financial, investment, or credential-harvesting operation, and the analysis found no brand impersonation, phishing indicators, malicious reputation findings, hidden sensitive forms, password submissions, wallet activity, or cloaking. The site does use consent-management and advertising-related external activity, with substantial page changes after interaction; these observations are consistent with a content site using advertising and privacy controls and were not accompanied by an abuse pattern. The available evidence is therefore consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website, while independently verifying the real-world operator remains appropriate.
- The homepage is titled “Dicio - Dicionário Online de Português” and provides dictionary, writing, and word-game functions without a login or sensitive-input form.
- The homepage’s published business model is free informational content monetized through advertising, analytics, consent management, and promotional placements.
- The domain is registered from 2009-02-11 and is 17.52 years old.
- The domain has traffic within the global top-million ranking, recorded at rank 42786.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site appears to provide a non-regulated language utility rather than a financial or investment service, so no financial license claim is expected from the supplied content. The available material does not independently verify the legal entity operating the service; the registration record lists Adriano Guimaraes Frazao, but that listing alone does not establish that the named individual is the current operator or a formally affiliated business. This is an identity-verification consideration, not an indication of impersonation or fraud. No adverse broker-reputation match was identified.
- The homepage describes dictionary, language, writing, and entertainment functions rather than a regulated financial offering.
- The registration record lists Adriano Guimaraes Frazao and records an expiry date of 2034-02-11.
- The site’s transport encryption uses a DV certificate issued by WE1, valid through 2026-10-28.
- The observed server association is AS13335, operated by Cloudflare, Inc.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, an organization should independently confirm the operator’s legal identity through a reliable offline or authoritative corporate source and review the site’s privacy, consent, and service terms. If any paid feature or account-based service is introduced, the applicable merchant identity, refund or return conditions, and payment-protection arrangements should be checked independently.
- The supplied content establishes the service purpose but does not independently connect the website to a verified real-world legal entity.
- The homepage includes consent-management functionality, making review of privacy and data-sharing terms relevant.
- The available page analysis identified no sensitive form, payment flow, or account-login mechanism requiring immediate escalation.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is high trust and low risk, with strong evidence of an established, apparently legitimate informational website and no observed scam, phishing, blacklist, or impersonation contradiction. The classification supports ordinary browsing and use of the site’s public functions, subject to the limited uncertainty that the real-world operator identity has not been independently verified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The website is protected by Cloudflare CDN/WAF infrastructure, which is a mitigating control against direct exposure and common edge-level abuse but is not, by itself, proof of legitimacy. The observed edge infrastructure is associated with OVH SAS in France on AS16276; all observed addresses were CDN edge servers, and no origin-server address was identified in the infrastructure assessment.
Closing Assessment
Normal low-impact use is proportionate to the available evidence; independent identity, terms, and payment-protection checks should precede any credential submission or financial commitment.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-17 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
No rule findings contributed to this verdict.
Identity verification
| Status | UNVERIFIED |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 30/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 50% |
- No on-site identity signals detected
Identity verification measures whether the site can be independently connected to a real-world brand or person. It is separate from the classification confidence.
What TrustSniffer observed
First-party facts recorded during the assessment of dicio.com.br.
- The request stayed on dicio.com.br. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2034-02-11. Clear
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Not available |
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| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2606:4700:20::ac43:4b62 |
| Name servers | chuck.ns.cloudflare.com, uma.ns.cloudflare.com |
| SSL issuer | WE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-28 |
| Domain age | 17.52 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2034-02-11 |
| Archive first seen | Not available |
| Archive snapshots | 0 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about dicio.com.br at assessment time. It is a starting point for your own judgement, not a guarantee: a high score means the signals were consistent with a legitimately operated site, a low or critical score means several risk patterns were present.
TrustSniffer assesses a website from the evidence it can collect at a point in time: domain registration and age, hosting and certificate, the content the site served, and third-party reputation feeds. A score is a summary of that evidence, not a guarantee and not a legal finding. There is no human rating and no user review in it. A site can change after it is assessed.