sais
The verdict
“sais” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #11,150) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #11,150
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - substâncias voláteis dadas a uma pessoa desmaiada para fazer com que ela acorde
Corpus desk
Index PT-sais · sais · Portuguese
sais · rank #11,150 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,150
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH secret
Nearest frequency peer: secret (+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 “sais”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- relevo
relevo
88,860 corpus weight
- review
review
88,856 corpus weight
- sais
sais
88,851 corpus weight
- secret
secret
88,848 corpus weight
- sonda
sonda
88,844 corpus weight
- sueco
sueco
88,839 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “sais” 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 | sais |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #11,150 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “sais”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sais is neighbouring look-alikes ("si", "são", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #11,150 among 1,185 “S” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for sais, with forms such as "saiss", "sasi", and "sias". 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, "si", "são", "sei", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is sais, spelled S-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1substâncias voláteis dadas a uma pessoa desmaiada para fazer com que ela acorde
- 2pós perfumados que se colocam na água do banho
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
banho de sais
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- saiss
- sasi
- sias
- ssais
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sais - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sais", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).