usa
/ˈu.zə/
The verdict
“usa” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #1,103) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #1,103
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 147
- “U” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - terceira pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo usar
Corpus desk
Index PT-usa · usa · Portuguese
usa · rank #1,103 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,103
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 147
- PHOTO-FINISH século
Nearest frequency peer: século (-1 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 “usa”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- oito
oito
98,902 corpus weight
- quinta
quinta
98,900 corpus weight
- século
século
98,899 corpus weight
- usa
usa
98,898 corpus weight
- vive
vive
98,897 corpus weight
- Americana
Americana
98,895 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “usa” 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 | usa |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈu.zə/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #1,103 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “usa”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for usa is neighbouring look-alikes ("ut", "use", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced /ˈu.zə/. Frequency #1,103 among 147 “U” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No misspelling variants are generated for usa in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ut", "use", "uva", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is usa, spelled U-S-A.
Definition
- 1terceira pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo usar
- 2segunda pessoa do singular do imperativo do verbo usar
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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