Sampa
The verdict
“Sampa” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #22,453. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,453
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,603
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - apelido para a cidade de São Paulo, Brasil
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 | Sampa |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #22,453 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Sampa” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Sampa, anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,453 among 2,603 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "apelido para a cidade de São Paulo, Brasil".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Sampa, with forms such as "asmpa", "samap", and "sammpa". 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, "sap", "sopa", "soma", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is Sampa, spelled S-A-M-P-A.
Definition
- 1apelido para a cidade de São Paulo, Brasil
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asmpa
- samap
- sammpa
- samppa
- sapma
- smapa
- ssampa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Sampa - 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 “Sampa”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is S-A-M-P-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “sap” - see the side-by-side comparison. Sampa vs sap
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Same frequency band
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.