CSA
The verdict
“CSA” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #21,705) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #21,705
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sigla de Canadian Space Agency, a Agência Espacial Canadense
Corpus desk
Index PT-csa · CSA · Portuguese
CSA · rank #21,705 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,705
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH cult
Nearest frequency peer: cult (+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 “CSA”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- CSA
CSA
78,296 corpus weight
- cult
cult
78,295 corpus weight
- desconhecim…
desconhecimento
78,288 corpus weight
- deslizamento
deslizamento
78,287 corpus weight
- digressão
digressão
78,283 corpus weight
- dinamismo
dinamismo
78,282 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “CSA” 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 | CSA |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #21,705 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “CSA”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for CSA is neighbouring look-alikes ("cu", "cut", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation. Frequency #21,705 among 2,140 “C” headwords. Gloss: "sigla de Canadian Space Agency, a Agência Espacial Canadense".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for CSA, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cu", "cut", "cum", 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is CSA, spelled C-S-A.
Definition
- 1sigla de Canadian Space Agency, a Agência Espacial Canadense
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how CSA appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nota: em francês é conhecida como ASC (Agence Spatiale Canadienne).
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).