sua

adj

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The verdict

“sua” is in the everyday core of Portuguese, ranked #32 in Portuguese word frequency and used as an adjective.

#32
frequency rank, Portuguese
3
letters
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - que tem você como objeto

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

sua vs SW
0% similar
sua vs sus
67% similar
sua vs sun
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for sua
PropertyValue
Headwordsua
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAdjective
Letters3
Frequency rank#32
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “sua” sits in Portuguese frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). sua lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for sua is 3 letters long, classified as an adjective. Corpus data places it at rank #32 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "que tem você como objeto".

sua doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "SW", "sus", "sun", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is sua, spelled S-U-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    que tem você como objeto

Synonyms

tua

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sua"?
"sua" is spelled S-U-A.
What does "sua" mean?
As an adjective, "sua" means: que tem você como objeto
What words are commonly confused with "sua"?
"sua" is commonly confused with "SW", "sus", "sun". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "sua" come from?
"sua" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Using “sua”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Portuguese spelling is S-U-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Don't mix it up with “SW” - see the side-by-side comparison. sua vs SW
  • 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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list