sutura
The verdict
“sutura” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #41,740. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,740
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - tipo de ligação usada por médicos, em especial cirurgiões, para manter unidos pele, músculos, vasos sanguíneos e outros tecidos do corpo humano, após terem sido seccionados por um ferimento ou ciru...
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Index PT-sutura · sutura · Portuguese
sutura · rank #41,740 · 8 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,740
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH subscrever
Nearest frequency peer: subscrever (-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.
Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “sutura”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- subscrever
subscrever
58,263 corpus weight
- sutura
sutura
58,261 corpus weight
- tagarela
tagarela
58,259 corpus weight
- Taliban
Taliban
58,258 corpus weight
- tatuador
tatuador
58,255 corpus weight
- tatuar
tatuar
58,254 corpus weight
What this shows “sutura” 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 | sutura |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #41,740 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “sutura”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around sutura, anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,740 among 1,185 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "tipo de ligação usada por médicos, em especial cirurgiões, para manter unidos pele, músculos, vasos sanguíneos e outros tecidos do corpo humano, após terem sido seccionados por um ferimento ou ciru...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for sutura, with forms such as "ssutura", "stuura", and "sutrua". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "surra", "sutiã", "sátira", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is sutura, spelled S-U-T-U-R-A.
Definition
- 1tipo de ligação usada por médicos, em especial cirurgiões, para manter unidos pele, músculos, vasos sanguíneos e outros tecidos do corpo humano, após terem sido seccionados por um ferimento ou cirurgia
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sutura appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A redução do número de pontos utilizados para a sutura é um dos principais ganhos apontados pelos especialistas.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ssutura
- stuura
- sutrua
- suttura
- sutuar
- suturra
- suutra
- ustura
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sutura - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).