sai
The verdict
“sai” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #998) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #998
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - expressão que comunica que se deseja que se afaste, que deixe em paz
Corpus desk
Index PT-sai · sai · Portuguese
sai · rank #998 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #998
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH qualidade
Nearest frequency peer: qualidade (-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 “sai”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- médio
médio
99,007 corpus weight
- preço
preço
99,005 corpus weight
- qualidade
qualidade
99,004 corpus weight
- sai
sai
99,003 corpus weight
- us
us
99,002 corpus weight
- al
al
98,999 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “sai” 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 | sai |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #998 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “sai”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sai is neighbouring look-alikes ("se", "só", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection. Frequency #998 among 1,185 “S” headwords. Gloss: "expressão que comunica que se deseja que se afaste, que deixe em paz".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sai, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "se", "só", "si", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is sai, spelled S-A-I.
Definition
- 1expressão que comunica que se deseja que se afaste, que deixe em paz
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sai appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A uma disse para a outra, deixa de pegar na minha mão, sai. Mas aí a outra deu as costas, a uma veio e deu uma tapinha na bunda da outra e ficou rindo.
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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