sus
The verdict
“sus” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,578) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,578
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - interjeição que demonstra impaciência (século XVI)
Corpus desk
Index PT-sus · sus · Portuguese
sus · rank #7,578 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,578
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH sudoeste
Nearest frequency peer: sudoeste (-2 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 “sus”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- salada
salada
92,428 corpus weight
- sudoeste
sudoeste
92,425 corpus weight
- sus
sus
92,423 corpus weight
- tradicional…
tradicionalmente
92,420 corpus weight
- was
was
92,419 corpus weight
- árbitro
árbitro
92,418 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “sus” 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 | sus |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #7,578 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “sus”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sus is neighbouring look-alikes ("SW", "suu", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection. Frequency #7,578 among 1,185 “S” headwords. Gloss: "interjeição que demonstra impaciência (século XVI)".
sus has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "SW", "suu", "susto", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is sus, spelled S-U-S.
Definition
- 1interjeição que demonstra impaciência (século XVI)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
- Ora, sus!, que fazes tu? / Despeja todo esse leito! / Em boa hora! Feito, feito! / Abaxa má-hora esse cu!
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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