sin
The verdict
“sin” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #8,687) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #8,687
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - aquilo, aquele
Corpus desk
Index PT-sin · sin · Portuguese
sin · rank #8,687 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,687
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH simpático
Nearest frequency peer: simpático (-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 “sin”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- run
run
91,320 corpus weight
- sacerdote
sacerdote
91,318 corpus weight
- secar
secar
91,317 corpus weight
- sequestro
sequestro
91,316 corpus weight
- simpático
simpático
91,315 corpus weight
- sin
sin
91,314 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “sin” 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 | sin |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #8,687 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “sin”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sin is neighbouring look-alikes ("só", "su", …), not just typos; it is apronoun. Frequency #8,687 among 1,185 “S” headwords. Gloss: "aquilo, aquele".
Zero misspellings are on record for sin in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "só", "su", "SW", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is sin, spelled S-I-N.
Definition
- 1aquilo, aquele
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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