UPA
The verdict
“UPA” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #21,326) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #21,326
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 147
- “U” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - estabelecimento de urgência e emergência do SUS, destinado a atendimento imediato e estabilização de pacientes
Corpus desk
Index PT-upa · UPA · Portuguese
UPA · rank #21,326 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,326
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 147
- PHOTO-FINISH torpedo
Nearest frequency peer: torpedo (-6 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 “UPA”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- tang
tang
78,687 corpus weight
- ternura
ternura
78,684 corpus weight
- there's
there's
78,683 corpus weight
- torpedo
torpedo
78,681 corpus weight
- UPA
UPA
78,675 corpus weight
- Vis
Vis
78,668 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “UPA” 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 | UPA |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #21,326 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “UPA”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for UPA is neighbouring look-alikes ("us", "ur", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation. Frequency #21,326 among 147 “U” headwords. Gloss: "estabelecimento de urgência e emergência do SUS, destinado a atendimento imediato e estabilização de pacientes".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for UPA, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "us", "ur", "ut", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 UPA, spelled U-P-A.
Definition
- 1estabelecimento de urgência e emergência do SUS, destinado a atendimento imediato e estabilização de pacientes
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how UPA appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A UPA do município recebeu novos equipamentos
Ele foi encaminhado à UPA após a queda
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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