nua
/ˈnu.ɐ/
The verdict
“nua” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,808) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,808
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 360
- “N” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - feminino de nu
Corpus desk
Index PT-nua · nua · Portuguese
nua · rank #7,808 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,808
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 360
- PHOTO-FINISH natação
Nearest frequency peer: natação (-3 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 “nua”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- misterioso
misterioso
92,199 corpus weight
- miséria
miséria
92,198 corpus weight
- natação
natação
92,196 corpus weight
- nua
nua
92,193 corpus weight
- patente
patente
92,190 corpus weight
- persa
persa
92,188 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “nua” 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 | nua |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈnu.ɐ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #7,808 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “nua”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for nua is neighbouring look-alikes ("num", "nur", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced /ˈnu.ɐ/. Frequency #7,808 among 360 “N” headwords. Gloss: "feminino de nu".
No generated misspelling entries exist for nua in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "num", "nur", "nun", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 nua, spelled N-U-A.
Definition
- 1feminino de nu
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nua appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Os caudados têm uma pele nua e suscetível à secura.
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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