seu

noun

Letters

3 characters

Frequency Rank

#31

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

seu is aPortuguesenoun. It means: senhor It ranks #31 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with só and si.

Key facts for seu
PropertyValue
Headwordseu
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters3
Frequency rank#31
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of seu in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for seu is 3 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #31 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "senhor".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for seu in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "só", "si", "su", 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 seu, spelled S-E-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    senhor

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #31 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "seu"?
"seu" is spelled S-E-U.
What does "seu" mean?
As a noun, "seu" means: senhor
What words are commonly confused with "seu"?
"seu" is commonly confused with "só", "si", "su". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "seu" come from?
"seu" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter S in our Portuguese index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.