sopa
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,351
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
sopa is aPortuguesenoun. It means: comida líquida ou pastosa, cozida, normalmente com vegetais e carne Pronounced /ˈso.pɐ/. It ranks #4,351 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with sua and sou.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sopa |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈso.pɐ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #4,351 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for sopa is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈso.pɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #4,351 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for sopa, with forms such as "ospa", "soppa", and "spoa". 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, "sua", "sou", "sós", 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 sopa, spelled S-O-P-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1comida líquida ou pastosa, cozida, normalmente com vegetais e carne
- 2algo fácil de se fazer
- 3oportunidade gerada em razão de desatenção, omissão, descuido, ausência, falha ou ainda disponibilidade
- 4demonstração com ato que assinala interesse, oportunidade, uma abertura à corte, ao flerte
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ospa,soppa,spoa,ssopa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sopa
Misspelling Variants of "sopa"
Frequency rank: #4,351 in Portuguese
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "sopa"?
What does "sopa" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "sopa"?
How do you pronounce "sopa"?
What language does "sopa" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter S in our Portuguese index: