sports

adj

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#11,555

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

sports is anPortugueseadj. It means: esporte, desportivo, esportivo (tipo veicular) Often confused with spot and suporte.

Key facts for sports
PropertyValue
Headwordsports
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAdj
Letters6
Frequency rank#11,555
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of sports in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for sports is 6 letters long, classified as anadj. Corpus data places it at rank #11,555 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "esporte, desportivo, esportivo (tipo veicular)".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for sports, with forms such as "psorts", "soprts", and "sporrts". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "spot", "suporte", "sorte", 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 sports, spelled S-P-O-R-T-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    esporte, desportivo, esportivo (tipo veicular)

Synonyms

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: psorts,soprts,sporrts,sporst,sportss,sportts,spotrs,spports,sprots,ssports

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sports

Misspelling Variants of "sports"

psorts6soprts6sporrts7sporst6sportss7sportts7spotrs6spports7
Misspelling Variants of "sports"

Frequency rank: #11,555 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sports"?
"sports" is spelled S-P-O-R-T-S.
What does "sports" mean?
As an adj, "sports" means: esporte, desportivo, esportivo (tipo veicular)
What words are commonly confused with "sports"?
"sports" is commonly confused with "spot", "suporte", "sorte". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "sports" come from?
"sports" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter S in our Portuguese index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.