sósia
/ˈsɔ.zjɐ/
The verdict
“sósia” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #35,794. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,794
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,603
- “S” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - pessoa que é muito parecida com outra
Corpus desk
Index PT-sosia · sósia · Portuguese
sósia · rank #35,794 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,794
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,603
- PHOTO-FINISH talismã
Nearest frequency peer: talismã (+2 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “sósia”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- sapateiro
sapateiro
64,226 corpus weight
- semblante
semblante
64,223 corpus weight
- sósia
sósia
64,207 corpus weight
- talismã
talismã
64,205 corpus weight
- tax
tax
64,201 corpus weight
- trainee
trainee
64,190 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “sósia” sits against the nearest ranked Portuguese headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | sósia |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsɔ.zjɐ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #35,794 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sósia” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around sósia (IPA /ˈsɔ.zjɐ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,794 among 2,603 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "pessoa que é muito parecida com outra".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for sósia, with forms such as "ssóia", "ssósia", and "sóisa". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sova", "sutiã", "sós", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is sósia, spelled S-Ó-S-I-A.
Definition
- 1pessoa que é muito parecida com outra
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ssóia
- ssósia
- sóisa
- sósai
- sóssia
- óssia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sósia - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sósia", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).
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.