tusa
/ˈt̪ʰus̪ə/
The verdict
“tusa” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #72,848 among 917 “T” headwords), classed as a pronoun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,848
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - tu, você, pronome pessoal enfático da segunda pessoa do singular
Corpus desk
Index PT-tusa · tusa · Portuguese
tusa · rank #72,848 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,848
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH typhoon
Nearest frequency peer: typhoon (+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 “tusa”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- toxicodepen…
toxicodependência
27,166 corpus weight
- translator
translator
27,160 corpus weight
- tusa
tusa
27,153 corpus weight
- typhoon
typhoon
27,149 corpus weight
- urucum
urucum
27,141 corpus weight
- vagabundagem
vagabundagem
27,139 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “tusa” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tusa |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | /ˈt̪ʰus̪ə/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #72,848 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “tusa” em português
Rare enough to double-check
tusa is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #72,848 among 917 “T” headwords, classed as apronoun, transcribed /ˈt̪ʰus̪ə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "tu, você, pronome pessoal enfático da segunda pessoa do singular".
No generated misspelling entries exist for tusa in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 tusa, spelled T-U-S-A.
Definition
- 1tu, você, pronome pessoal enfático da segunda pessoa do singular
Synonyms
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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