pausa
The verdict
“pausa” is a regularly-used Portuguese word, ranked #5,774 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #5,774
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 5
- letters
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - uma pequena parada ou interrupção quando se está fazendo ou falando algo
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 | pausa |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #5,774 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pausa” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for pausa is 5 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #5,774 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for pausa, with forms such as "apusa", "pasua", and "pauas". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "puta", "plus", "puma", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is pausa, spelled P-A-U-S-A.
Definition
- 1uma pequena parada ou interrupção quando se está fazendo ou falando algo
- 2o ato de fazer uma nota musical ou um silêncio durar mais do que o normal
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: apusa,pasua,pauas,paussa,ppausa,puasa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pausa - 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 “pausa”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is P-A-U-S-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “puta” - see the side-by-side comparison. pausa vs puta
- 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.