senhor
/sɪˈnjɔː(ɹ)/
"senhor" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“senhor” is uncommon English (frequency #83,735 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,735
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A Portuguese gentleman.
Corpus desk
Index EN-senhor · senhor · English
senhor · rank #83,735 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,735
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Sehgal
Nearest frequency peer: Sehgal (-4 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “senhor”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- seductress
seductress
16,272 corpus weight
- sefer
sefer
16,271 corpus weight
- Sehgal
Sehgal
16,270 corpus weight
- senhor
senhor
16,266 corpus weight
- shallowly
shallowly
16,262 corpus weight
- shearling
shearling
16,261 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “senhor” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | senhor |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /sɪˈnjɔː(ɹ)/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #83,735 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “senhor” in English
Rare enough to double-check
senhor is uncommon English at frequency #83,735 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /sɪˈnjɔː(ɹ)/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A Portuguese gentleman.".
senhor doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Portuguese senhor. Doublet of seigneur, seignior, senior, señor, senyor, signore, sir, and sire. The correct English form is senhor, spelled S-E-N-H-O-R.
Definition
- 1A Portuguese gentleman.
Etymology
From Portuguese senhor. Doublet of seigneur, seignior, senior, señor, senyor, signore, sir, and sire.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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