sujo

adj

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,959

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

5

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

sujo is anPortugueseadj. It means: qualidade do que não está limpo It ranks #4,959 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with sus and sun.

Key facts for sujo
PropertyValue
Headwordsujo
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAdj
Letters4
Frequency rank#4,959
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of sujo in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for sujo is 4 letters long, classified as anadj. Corpus data places it at rank #4,959 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for sujo, with forms such as "sjuo", "ssujo", and "sujjo". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sus", "sun", "sup", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is sujo, spelled S-U-J-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    qualidade do que não está limpo
  2. 2
    portador de sujeira
  3. 3
    maculado
  4. 4
    imundo
  5. 5
    desonesto
  6. 6
    porco

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: sjuo,ssujo,sujjo,suoj,usjo

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sujo

Misspelling Variants of "sujo"

sjuo4ssujo5sujjo5suoj4usjo4
Misspelling Variants of "sujo"

Frequency rank: #4,959 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sujo"?
"sujo" is spelled S-U-J-O.
What does "sujo" mean?
As an adj, "sujo" means: qualidade do que não está limpo
What words are commonly confused with "sujo"?
"sujo" is commonly confused with "sus", "sun", "sup". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "sujo" come from?
"sujo" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter S in our Portuguese index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.