sutura

noun

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...

Corpus desk

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

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.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

sutura vs surra
67% similar
sutura vs sutiã
50% similar
sutura vs sátira
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for sutura
PropertyValue
Headwordsutura
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters6
Frequency rank#41,740
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequência do íman ortográfico “sutura”

Esta escala corre do núcleo do português quotidiano (esquerda) até o rastro de formas raras (direita).suturacai aqui:

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

Os ticks avançam em logaritmo; cada um é da ordem de dez vezes mais raro. Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “subscrever” (#41,738), “tagarela” (#41,742), “Taliban” (#41,743). Entre 1,185 lemas com “S”, “sutura” fica em #41,740. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    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 cirurgia

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how sutura appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

ssutura1stuura2sutrua2suttura1sutuar2suturra1suutra2ustura2
Edit distance from "sutura"

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 "sutura"?
"sutura" is spelled S-U-T-U-R-A.
What does "sutura" mean?
As a noun, "sutura" means: 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...
What words are commonly confused with "sutura"?
"sutura" is commonly confused with "surra", "sutiã", "sátira". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "sutura" come from?
"sutura" is a Portuguese word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sutura", not the corpus desk frequency band.

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).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list