sua vs Sure, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#32
“sua” frequency rank: #33,629
“Sure” frequency rank: 33661
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	sua	Sure
Definition	que tem você como objeto	surata

Letter map: sua vs Sure

Shared letters muted; letters that set sua and Sure apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

3 ch

sua

4 ch

Sure

Grammar separator: sua vs Sure

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: sua is anadjective and Sureanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 33661, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

sua is recorded at frequency rank #32, classified as anadj. Sure is at rank #33,629, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˈzuːrə/.

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 33661, this pair ranks #33,783 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of sua vs Sure

Shared letters: su. Private to "sua": a. Private to "Sure": er.

"sua" · 3 letters · shape CVV · "Sure" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

Sure ← srue · ssure · suer · surre · usre

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "sua" and "Sure" be used interchangeably?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "sua" is an adjective and "Sure" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

In ordinary Portuguese text, does "sua" or "Sure" show up more?

"sua" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #32 in our Portuguese list, against #33,629 for "Sure". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "sua" and "Sure".

Full dictionary entry for "sua" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "Sure" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #33,783 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"sua" and "Sure" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "sire vs Sure". 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 #33,783 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.