sme
The verdict
“sme” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #40,334) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #40,334
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - primeira pessoa do plural do futuro do indicativo do verbo byť
Corpus desk
Index PT-sme · sme · Portuguese
sme · rank #40,334 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,334
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH serious
Nearest frequency peer: serious (-4 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 “sme”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- sarna
sarna
59,676 corpus weight
- serious
serious
59,671 corpus weight
- sme
sme
59,667 corpus weight
- subtil
subtil
59,657 corpus weight
- sulfúrico
sulfúrico
59,655 corpus weight
- surdez
surdez
59,654 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “sme” 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 | sme |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #40,334 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “sme”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sme is neighbouring look-alikes ("só", "su", …), not just typos; it is averb. Frequency #40,334 among 1,185 “S” headwords. Gloss: "primeira pessoa do plural do futuro do indicativo do verbo byť".
sme 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, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is sme, spelled S-M-E.
Definition
- 1primeira pessoa do plural do futuro do indicativo do verbo byť
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Kedykoľvek sme dôslední bez vojny.
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).