sonda
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,157
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
sonda is aPortuguesenoun. It means: prumo ou objeto análogo com que se determina ou observa a profundidade das águas, ou interior de um objeto, estado de um órgão ou de um ferimento, etc Often confused with sono and sopa.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sonda |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #11,157 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for sonda is 5 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #11,157 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for sonda, with forms such as "osnda", "snoda", and "sodna". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sono", "sopa", "sons", 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 sonda, spelled S-O-N-D-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1prumo ou objeto análogo com que se determina ou observa a profundidade das águas, ou interior de um objeto, estado de um órgão ou de um ferimento, etc
- 2aparelho de perfuração do terreno para conhecimento do subsolo ou para abrir poços profundos
- 3tubo de borracha que se introduz em cavidades orgânicas para se extrair delas o conteúdo
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: osnda,snoda,sodna,sonad,sondda,sonnda,ssonda
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sonda
Misspelling Variants of "sonda"
Frequency rank: #11,157 in Portuguese
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