saudade
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,350
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
saudade is aPortuguesenoun. It means: memória ou recordação grata de pessoas, familiares ou objetos Pronounced /saw.ˈda.dʒi/. It ranks #5,350 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with saúde and saudar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | saudade |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /saw.ˈda.dʒi/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,350 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for saudade is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /saw.ˈda.dʒi/. Corpus data places it at rank #5,350 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for saudade, with forms such as "asudade", "saduade", and "sauadde". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "saúde", "saudar", "saudável", 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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is saudade, spelled S-A-U-D-A-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1memória ou recordação grata de pessoas, familiares ou objetos
- 2sentimento experimentado entre duas ou mais pessoas que estão distantes, ou que ficam muito tempo sem se ver
- 3lembrança
- 4lembrança de pessoas ou coisas distantes ou não mais existentes, acompanhada da vontade de tornar a vê-las ou possuí-las
- 5condição em que se tem sentimento de perda, lastimação, amargura, diante de aparente possibilidade de poder ter obtido o que desejava e parecia alcançável, que não se concretizou
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: asudade,saduade,sauadde,saudadde,saudaed,sauddade,sauddae,ssaudade,suadade
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for saudade
Misspelling Variants of "saudade"
Frequency rank: #5,350 in Portuguese
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