sejavssujoWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: seja is a intj, sujo is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“seja” is an intj and “sujo” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#138
“seja” frequency rank
#4,959
“sujo” frequency rank
5097
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature seja sujo
Definition designa consentimento qualidade do que não está limpo

Letter map: seja vs sujo

Shared letters muted; letters that set seja and sujo apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch
seja
4 ch
sujo

Part-of-speech tell for seja / sujo

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: seja is anintj and sujoanadjective. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 5097, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

seja is recorded at frequency rank #138, classified as anintj, pronounced /ˈse.ʒə/. sujo is at rank #4,959, tagged as anadj.

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 5097, this pair ranks #69,615 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of seja vs sujo

Shared letters: js. Private to "seja": ae. Private to "sujo": ou.

"seja" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "sujo" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • sejaesja · seaj · sejja · sjea · sseja
  • sujosjuo · ssujo · sujjo · suoj · usjo

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "seja" for "sujo" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "seja" is an intj and "sujo" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "seja" or "sujo"?
"seja" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #138 in our Portuguese list, against #4,959 for "sujo". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Pair "seja" vs "sujo" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "seja" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "sujo" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #69,615 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "seja" and "sujo" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "sueño vs sujo". 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 #69,615 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