sultana

noun

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The verdict

“sultana” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #60,649 among 2,603 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#60,649
frequency rank, Portuguese
2,603
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - feminino de sultão: soberana de um sultanato

Key facts for sultana
PropertyValue
Headwordsultana
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters7
Frequency rank#60,649
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “sultana” 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). sultana lands here:

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

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

Rare enough to double-check

sultana is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #60,649 among 2,603 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "feminino de sultão: soberana de um sultanato".

sultana has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is sultana, spelled S-U-L-T-A-N-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    feminino de sultão: soberana de um sultanato

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 "sultana"?
"sultana" is spelled S-U-L-T-A-N-A.
What does "sultana" mean?
As a noun, "sultana" means: feminino de sultão: soberana de um sultanato
What language does "sultana" come from?
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Using “sultana”

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

  • The one correct Portuguese spelling is S-U-L-T-A-N-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words

Other uncommon Portuguese words near this rank

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