tusa

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for tusa is 4 letters long, classified as apron, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈt̪ʰus̪ə/. Corpus data places it at rank #72,848 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "tu, você, pronome pessoal enfático da segunda pessoa do singular".

No misspelling variants are generated for tusa in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is tusa, spelled T-U-S-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.