sou

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for sou is 3 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈsow/, /ˈso/. Corpus data places it at rank #106 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "primeira pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo ser".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for sou in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "su", "SW", "sua", 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 sou, spelled S-O-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.