asa
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,104
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
asa is aPortuguesenoun. It means: membro de um animal que serve para o voo Pronounced /ˈa.zɐ/. It ranks #7,104 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with at and av.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for asa is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈa.zɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #7,104 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for asa in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "at", "av", "até", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is asa, spelled A-S-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #7,104 in Portuguese
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "asa"?
What does "asa" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "asa"?
How do you pronounce "asa"?
What language does "asa" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter A in our Portuguese index: