asa
/ˈa.zɐ/
The verdict
“asa” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,104) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,104
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - membro de um animal que serve para o voo
Corpus desk
Index PT-asa · asa · Portuguese
asa · rank #7,104 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,104
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH xadrez
Nearest frequency peer: xadrez (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “asa”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- want
want
92,899 corpus weight
- xadrez
xadrez
92,898 corpus weight
- asa
asa
92,897 corpus weight
- bicho
bicho
92,895 corpus weight
- bilhete
bilhete
92,894 corpus weight
- boletim
boletim
92,893 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “asa” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | asa |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈa.zɐ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #7,104 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “asa”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for asa is neighbouring look-alikes ("at", "av", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈa.zɐ/. Frequency #7,104 among 1,900 “A” headwords. 6 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
asa has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "at", "av", "até", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is asa, spelled A-S-A.
Definition
- 1membro de um animal que serve para o voo
- 2apêndice, geralmente recurvado, de vários utensílios, pelo qual se lhes pega
- 3partes laterais das narinas
- 4ala
- 5apêndice de certas sementes ou frutos
- 6mau odor proveniente da deterioração de bactérias no suor do corpo humano nas axilas
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how asa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quando O Universo Conspira
2023, Por Fernando Henrique Becker Silva, O enigma d'o grito, pag:?
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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