sorry
The verdict
“sorry” is a moderately-common Portuguese word, ranked #14,719 in Portuguese word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #14,719
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 5
- letters
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - expressa desculpas
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 | sorry |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #14,719 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sorry” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for sorry is 5 letters long, classified as an adjective. Corpus data places it at rank #14,719 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for sorry, with forms such as "osrry", "sorryy", and "sory". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "sorte", "surra", "soar", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is sorry, spelled S-O-R-R-Y.
Definition
- 1expressa desculpas
- 2expressa lamentação
- 3expressa arrependimento
- 4usado para avisar o locutor que repita o que disse por falta de compreensão
- 5usado quando o locutor comete um erro de fala
- 6deplorável, miserável
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: osrry,sorryy,sory,soryr,srory,ssorry
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sorry - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “sorry”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is S-O-R-R-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “sorte” - see the side-by-side comparison. sorry vs sorte
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
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.