asma

noun

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The verdict

“asma” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #15,737) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#15,737
frequency rank, Portuguese
1,900
“A” headwords
3
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - doença inflamatória crônica caracterizada por obstrução ao fluxo de ar nas vias respiratórias, cuja causa não está completamente elucidada

Corpus desk

Index PT-asma · asma · Portuguese

asma · rank #15,737 · 3 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #15,737
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 3 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,900
  • PHOTO-FINISH Australia

Nearest frequency peer: Australia (+2 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 “asma”

Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo

corpus weight

What this shows As barras situam “asma” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

asma vs ata
50% similar
asma vs Ass
25% similar
asma vs aula
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for asma
PropertyValue
Headwordasma
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters4
Frequency rank#15,737
Misspellings tracked3
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “asma”

Da esquerda para a direita: o pouco que carrega a fala diária, depois a cauda longa quase invisível.asmacai aqui:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Os ticks avançam em logaritmo; cada um é da ordem de dez vezes mais raro. Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “Australia” (#15,739), “autorizar” (#15,742), “anais” (#15,731). Entre 1,900 lemas com “A”, “asma” fica em #15,737. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for asma is neighbouring look-alikes ("ata", "Ass", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #15,737 among 1,900 “A” headwords. Gloss: "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

  1. 1
    doença inflamatória crônica caracterizada por obstrução ao fluxo de ar nas vias respiratórias, cuja causa não está completamente elucidada

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how asma appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Na região Centro-Oeste, onde a cobertura do PSF passou de 2% em 2001 para 45% em 2006, a proporção de internações por asma também caiu.

Synonyms

puxápuxaçãopuxadopuxamentopuxeira

This word in other languages

asthma(English)asma(Español)asthme(Français)Asthma(Deutsch)

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.

asam2asmma1assma1
Edit distance from "asma"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "asma"?
"asma" is spelled A-S-M-A.
What does "asma" mean?
As a noun, "asma" means: doença inflamatória crônica caracterizada por obstrução ao fluxo de ar nas vias respiratórias, cuja causa não está completamente elucidada
What words are commonly confused with "asma"?
"asma" is commonly confused with "ata", "Ass", "aula". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "asma" come from?
"asma" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Yes, PlainSpell is a completely free word reference. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, confusable pairs, homophones, and spelling corrections across 5 languages without any sign-up or subscription.

Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "asma", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Bart#15,744bula#15,753cash#15,755teia#15,694

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list