asma
The verdict
“asma” is a moderately-common Portuguese word, ranked #15,737 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #15,737
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 4
- letters
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - doença inflamatória crônica caracterizada por obstrução ao fluxo de ar nas vias respiratórias, cuja causa não está completamente elucidada
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 | asma |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #15,737 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “asma” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for asma is 4 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #15,737 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "doença inflamatória crônica caracterizada por obstrução ao fluxo de ar nas vias respiratórias, cuja causa não está completamente elucidada".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for asma, with forms such as "asam", "asmma", and "assma". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ata", "Ass", "aula", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is asma, spelled A-S-M-A.
Definition
- 1doença inflamatória crônica caracterizada por obstrução ao fluxo de ar nas vias respiratórias, cuja causa não está completamente elucidada
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: asam,asmma,assma
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of asma - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “asma”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is A-S-M-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “ata” - see the side-by-side comparison. asma vs ata
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.