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Which to use

“suco” and “sumiço” are a confusable Portuguese pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#4,860
“suco” frequency rank
#21,888
“sumiço” frequency rank
26748
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature suco sumiço
Definition líquido retirado da parte carnuda de uma fruta, de algum animal ou de algum vegetal ato ou efeito de sumir; desaparecimento

Letter map: suco vs sumiço

Shared letters muted; letters that set suco and sumiço apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. suco runs 4 letters (CVCV) against sumiço's 6 (CVCVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
suco
6 ch
sumiço

Corpus notes: suco and sumiço

suco and sumiço are indexed as a confusable Portuguese pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 26748, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

suco is recorded at frequency rank #4,860, classified as anoun. sumiço is at rank #21,888, tagged as anoun, pronounced /su.ˈmi.su/.

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 26748, this pair ranks #42,339 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of suco vs sumiço

Shared letters: osu. Private to "suco": c. Private to "sumiço": imç.

"suco" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "sumiço" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • suco ← scuo · ssuco · succo · suoc · usco

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "suco" for "sumiço" ever safe?
No. They differ by 2 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "suco" or "sumiço" show up more?
"suco" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #4,860 in our Portuguese list, against #21,888 for "sumiço". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Pair "suco" vs "sumiço" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "suco" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "sumiço" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #42,339 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "suco" and "sumiço" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "sulco vs sumiço". 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 #42,339 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