sue
The verdict
“sue” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #16,624) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #16,624
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - forma sem gênero de seu ou sua
Corpus desk
Index PT-sue · sue · Portuguese
sue · rank #16,624 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,624
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH sumário
Nearest frequency peer: sumário (+1 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.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “sue”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- simbolismo
simbolismo
83,384 corpus weight
- sossego
sossego
83,379 corpus weight
- sue
sue
83,377 corpus weight
- sumário
sumário
83,376 corpus weight
- suspiro
suspiro
83,374 corpus weight
- tivéssemos
tivéssemos
83,369 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “sue” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.
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 | sue |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #16,624 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “sue”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sue is neighbouring look-alikes ("SW", "sus", …), not just typos; it is apronoun. Frequency #16,624 among 1,185 “S” headwords. Gloss: "forma sem gênero de seu ou sua".
sue has no tracked misspelling variants, 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, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is sue, spelled S-U-E.
Definition
- 1forma sem gênero de seu ou sua
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).