suster
/suʃ.ˈteɾ/
The verdict
“suster” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #66,511 among 1,185 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,511
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - segurar para que não caia
Corpus desk
Index PT-suster · suster · Portuguese
suster · rank #66,511 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,511
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH sépia
Nearest frequency peer: sépia (+4 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.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “suster”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- serrar
serrar
33,516 corpus weight
- suster
suster
33,490 corpus weight
- sépia
sépia
33,486 corpus weight
- transcontin…
transcontinental
33,466 corpus weight
- untar
untar
33,457 corpus weight
- useful
useful
33,456 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “suster” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | suster |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /suʃ.ˈteɾ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #66,511 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “suster” em português
Rare enough to double-check
suster is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #66,511 among 1,185 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /suʃ.ˈteɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for suster in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is suster, spelled S-U-S-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1segurar para que não caia
- 2sustentar
- 3amparar
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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