sim
/ˈsĩ/
The verdict
“sim” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #147) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #147
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,603
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - exprime afirmação, acordo, aprovação, permissão ou consentimento
Corpus desk
Index PT-sim · sim · Portuguese
sim · rank #147 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #147
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,603
- PHOTO-FINISH qualquer
Nearest frequency peer: qualquer (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “sim”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- cada
cada
99,857 corpus weight
- qualquer
qualquer
99,855 corpus weight
- sim
sim
99,854 corpus weight
- acho
acho
99,853 corpus weight
- menos
menos
99,852 corpus weight
- alguém
alguém
99,851 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “sim” sits against the nearest ranked Portuguese headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | sim |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | /ˈsĩ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #147 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sim” sits in Portuguese frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sim is neighbouring look-alikes ("só", "su", …), not just typos; it is anadverb pronounced /ˈsĩ/. Frequency #147 among 2,603 “S” headwords. Gloss: "exprime afirmação, acordo, aprovação, permissão ou consentimento".
sim doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "só", "su", "SW", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is sim, spelled S-I-M.
Definition
- 1exprime afirmação, acordo, aprovação, permissão ou consentimento
Antonyms
This word in other languages
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.