suu
/ˈsuː/
The verdict
“suu” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #47,111) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #47,111
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - boca, cavidade oral
Corpus desk
Index PT-suu · suu · Portuguese
suu · rank #47,111 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,111
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH spotlight
Nearest frequency peer: spotlight (-12 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 “suu”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- serviçal
serviçal
52,915 corpus weight
- sociológico
sociológico
52,905 corpus weight
- spotlight
spotlight
52,902 corpus weight
- suu
suu
52,890 corpus weight
- travão
travão
52,874 corpus weight
- weight
weight
52,855 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “suu” 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 | suu |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsuː/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #47,111 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “suu”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for suu is neighbouring look-alikes ("SW", "s", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈsuː/. Frequency #47,111 among 1,185 “S” headwords. Gloss: "boca, cavidade oral".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for suu, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "SW", "s", "se", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is suu, spelled S-U-U.
Definition
- 1boca, cavidade oral
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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).