sie
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#40,788
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
sie is aPortuguesepron. It means: ela, pronome pessoal feminino do caso nominativo da terceira pessoa do singular: Pronounced /zi:/ ouvir^(fonte ?) ouvir^(fonte ?). Often confused with só and su.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sie |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Pron |
| IPA | /zi:/ ouvir^(fonte ?) ouvir^(fonte ?) |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #40,788 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for sie is 3 letters long, classified as apron, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /zi:/ ouvir^(fonte ?) ouvir^(fonte ?). Corpus data places it at rank #40,788 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for sie 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", "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 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 sie, spelled S-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ela, pronome pessoal feminino do caso nominativo da terceira pessoa do singular:
- 2a, ela, pronome pessoal feminino do caso acusativo da terceira pessoa do singular:
- 3eles, elas, pronome pessoal do caso nominativo da terceira pessoa do plural:
- 4os, as, eles, elas, pronome pessoal do caso acusativo da terceira pessoa do plural:
Frequency rank: #40,788 in Portuguese
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