easyvsessaWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: easy is a adjective, essa is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“easy” is an adjective and “essa” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#13,720
“easy” frequency rank
#86
“essa” frequency rank
13806
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature easy essa
Definition fácil o estrado onde o caixão é colocado durante as cerimónias/cerimônias fúnebres antes do enterro

Letter map: easy vs essa

Shared letters muted; letters that set easy and essa apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch
easy
4 ch
essa

Role in the sentence - easy and essa

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: easy is anadjective and essaanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 13806, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

easy is recorded at frequency rank #13,720, classified as anadj, pronounced /ˈiːzi/. essa is at rank #86, tagged as anoun.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 13806, this pair ranks #58,430 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of easy vs essa

Shared letters: aes. Private to "easy": y. Private to "essa": -.

"easy" · 4 letters · shape VVCV  ·  "essa" · 4 letters · shape VCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • easyaesy · eassy · easyy · eays · esay
  • essaesa · esas · sesa

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "easy" for "essa" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "easy" is an adjective and "essa" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "easy" vs "essa" - which ranks higher?
"essa" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #86 in our Portuguese list, against #13,720 for "easy". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Pair "easy" vs "essa" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "easy" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "essa" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #58,430 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "easy" and "essa" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "ear vs easy". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #58,430 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list