sic
/siːk/
The verdict
“sic” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,836) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,836
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - assim
Corpus desk
Index PT-sic · sic · Portuguese
sic · rank #7,836 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,836
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH sex
Nearest frequency peer: sex (-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 “sic”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- sertão
sertão
92,167 corpus weight
- sex
sex
92,166 corpus weight
- sic
sic
92,165 corpus weight
- their
their
92,159 corpus weight
- toalha
toalha
92,158 corpus weight
- torcer
torcer
92,157 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “sic” 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 | sic |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | /siːk/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #7,836 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “sic”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sic is neighbouring look-alikes ("só", "su", …), not just typos; it is anadverb pronounced /siːk/. Frequency #7,836 among 1,185 “S” headwords. Gloss: "assim".
sic doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "só", "su", "SW", 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is sic, spelled S-I-C.
Definition
- 1assim
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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