Sri
The verdict
“Sri” is a regularly-used Portuguese word, ranked #9,109 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #9,109
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - título honorífico adicionado na frente de nomes de metres religiosos, sobretudo da Índia ou de práticas indianas, como o yoga; senhor, mestre
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 | Sri |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #9,109 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Sri” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for Sri is 3 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #9,109 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for Sri in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "su", "SW", "sua", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is Sri, spelled S-R-I.
Definition
- 1título honorífico adicionado na frente de nomes de metres religiosos, sobretudo da Índia ou de práticas indianas, como o yoga; senhor, mestre
- 2título que compõe o nome de alguns lugares e possui o sentido de "santo", "sagrado"
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 “Sri”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is S-R-I - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “su” - see the side-by-side comparison. Sri vs su
- 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.