sacrovssucreWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#42,664
“sacro” frequency rank
#26,211
“sucre” frequency rank
68875
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature sacro sucre
Definition sagrado, qualificativo dado a aquilo que tem relação com o divino, a aquilo que se tem em mui alta estima açúcar:

Letter map: sacro vs sucre

Shared letters muted; letters that set sacro and sucre apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. sacro and sucre follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

5 ch
sacro
5 ch
sucre

Role in the sentence - sacro and sucre

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: sacro is anadjective and sucreanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 68875, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

sacro is recorded at frequency rank #42,664, classified as anadj, pronounced /ˈsa.kɾu/. sucre is at rank #26,211, 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 68875, this pair ranks #4,121 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of sacro vs sucre

Shared letters: crs. Private to "sacro": ao. Private to "sucre": eu.

"sacro" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "sucre" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • sacro ← ascro · saccro · sacor · sacrro · sarco · scaro · ssacro
  • sucre ← scure · ssucre · succre · sucer · sucrre · surce · uscre

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "sacro" for "sucre" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "sacro" is an adjective and "sucre" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "sacro" vs "sucre" - which ranks higher?
"sucre" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #26,211 in our Portuguese list, against #42,664 for "sacro". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "sacro" and "sucre". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "sacro" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "sucre" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #4,121 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "sacro" and "sucre" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "sacred vs sacro". 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 #4,121 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