sugar
/su.ˈɡaɾ/
The verdict
“sugar” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #11,556. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,556
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - promover sucção
Corpus desk
Index PT-sugar · sugar · Portuguese
sugar · rank #11,556 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,556
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH sports
Nearest frequency peer: sports (-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.
Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “sugar”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- sinos
sinos
88,453 corpus weight
- somar
somar
88,450 corpus weight
- sports
sports
88,446 corpus weight
- sugar
sugar
88,445 corpus weight
- sênior
sênior
88,443 corpus weight
- tartaruga
tartaruga
88,441 corpus weight
What this shows “sugar” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
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 | sugar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /su.ˈɡaɾ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #11,556 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “sugar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around sugar (IPA /su.ˈɡaɾ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #11,556 among 1,185 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "promover sucção".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for sugar, with forms such as "sguar", "ssugar", and "suagr". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "suma", "suor", "sumir", and more, 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 its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is sugar, spelled S-U-G-A-R.
Definition
- 1promover sucção
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sguar
- ssugar
- suagr
- sugarr
- suggar
- sugra
- usgar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sugar - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).