sama
The verdict
“sama” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #28,025) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #28,025
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - forma nominativo feminino singular do pronome sám
Corpus desk
Index PT-sama · sama · Portuguese
sama · rank #28,025 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,025
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH sale
Nearest frequency peer: sale (-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 “sama”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- ronco
ronco
71,984 corpus weight
- rã
rã
71,982 corpus weight
- safira
safira
71,979 corpus weight
- Sagitário
Sagitário
71,978 corpus weight
- sale
sale
71,977 corpus weight
- sama
sama
71,976 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “sama” 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 | sama |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #28,025 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “sama”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sama is neighbouring look-alikes ("sua", "são", …), not just typos; it is apronoun. Frequency #28,025 among 1,185 “S” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for sama, with forms such as "saam", "samma", and "smaa". 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, "sua", "são", "sem", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 sama, spelled S-A-M-A.
Definition
- 1forma nominativo feminino singular do pronome sám
- 2forma nominativo/acusativo neutro plural do pronome do pronome sám
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sama appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Byla doma sama.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- saam
- samma
- smaa
- ssama
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sama - 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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sama", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).