sufocado
The verdict
“sufocado” is a moderately-common Portuguese word, ranked #31,573 in Portuguese word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #31,573
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 8
- letters
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - que é ou foi alvo de sufocação
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 | sufocado |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #31,573 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sufocado” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for sufocado is 8 letters long, classified as an adjective. Corpus data places it at rank #31,573 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for sufocado, with forms such as "sfuocado", "ssufocado", and "sufcoado". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "sufocar", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 sufocado, spelled S-U-F-O-C-A-D-O.
Definition
- 1que é ou foi alvo de sufocação
- 2que não consegue respirar
- 3que não pode nem consegue falar com clareza
- 4que foi alvo de repressão
- 5que está ou foi preso; abafado
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: sfuocado,ssufocado,sufcoado,suffocado,sufoacdo,sufocaddo,sufocaod,sufoccado,sufocdao,suofcado,usfocado
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sufocado - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 “sufocado”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is S-U-F-O-C-A-D-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “sufocar” - see the side-by-side comparison. sufocado vs sufocar
- 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.