sap
/sæp/
The verdict
“sap” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #32,768) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #32,768
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - seiva
Corpus desk
Index PT-sap · sap · Portuguese
sap · rank #32,768 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,768
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH seen
Nearest frequency peer: seen (+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 “sap”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- requisitar
requisitar
67,244 corpus weight
- rotativo
rotativo
67,239 corpus weight
- sap
sap
67,233 corpus weight
- seen
seen
67,232 corpus weight
- Serafim
Serafim
67,229 corpus weight
- sunrise
sunrise
67,216 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “sap” 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 | sap |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /sæp/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #32,768 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “sap”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sap is neighbouring look-alikes ("se", "só", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /sæp/. Frequency #32,768 among 1,185 “S” headwords. Gloss: "seiva".
sap doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "se", "só", "si", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is sap, spelled S-A-P.
Definition
- 1seiva
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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).