saiu
The verdict
“saiu” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #1,035) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #1,035
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,603
- “S” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Terceira pessoa do singular do pretérito perfeito do indicativo do verbo sair.
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 | saiu |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,035 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “saiu” sits in Portuguese frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for saiu is neighbouring look-alikes ("si", "su", …), not just typos; it is averb. Frequency #1,035 among 2,603 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Terceira pessoa do singular do pretérito perfeito do indicativo do verbo sair.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for saiu, with forms such as "asiu", "saui", and "siau". 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, "si", "su", "seu", 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 easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is saiu, spelled S-A-I-U.
Definition
- 1Terceira pessoa do singular do pretérito perfeito do indicativo do verbo sair.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asiu
- saui
- siau
- ssaiu
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of saiu - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 “saiu”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is S-A-I-U - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “si” - see the side-by-side comparison. saiu vs si
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Words at a similar Portuguese frequency
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.