sexismo

Name: sexismo, Spanish Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

[sekˈsismo]

/[sekˈsismo]/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“sexismo” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #28,158. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#28,158
frequency rank, Spanish: 4,169
“S” headwords: 11
tracked misspellings: 1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Discriminación de las personas en razón de su sexo, de modo tal que un sexo se considera superior a otro.

Corpus desk

Index ES-sexismo · sexismo · Spanish

sexismo · rank #28,158 · 11 variants · 1 confusable

FREQ-MID #28,158
LEN-LONG 7 letters
VOW-3 3 vowels
CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
VAR-MID 11 variants
BOOK-MID 4,169
PHOTO-FINISH sentirán

Nearest frequency peer: sentirán (-1 rank slots)

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.

secuestrador

71,846
sellada

71,845
sentirán

71,844
sexismo

71,843
shore

71,841
significante

71,840

What this shows “sexismo” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

sexismo vs sismo

71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for sexismo
Property	Value
Headword	sexismo
Language	Spanish
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	[sekˈsismo]
Letters	7
Frequency rank	#28,158
Misspellings tracked	11
Confusable pairs	1
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “sexismo”

De izquierda a derecha: las pocas palabras que cargan el habla diaria, luego la cola larga casi invisible.sexismocae aquí:

#28,158

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

El eje es logarítmico: cada tick marca unas diez veces menos frecuencia. En la misma franja de rareza aparecen “sentirán” (#28,157), “sellada” (#28,156), “shore” (#28,160). Entre 4,169 lemas con “S”, “sexismo” va en #28,158. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around sexismo (IPA [sekˈsismo]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,158 among 4,169 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for sexismo, with forms such as "cexismo", "esxismo", and "seixsmo". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "sismo", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is sexismo, spelled S-E-X-I-S-M-O.

Definition

1
Discriminación de las personas en razón de su sexo, de modo tal que un sexo se considera superior a otro.
2
Creencia de que un sexo es superior a otro.
3
Condiciones o actitudes que promueven estereotipos de roles sociales establecidos sobre diferencias sexuales

Synonyms

discriminación sexual

This word in other languages

sexism(English)sexisme(Français)Sexismus(Deutsch)sexismo(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

cexismo
esxismo
seixsmo
seximso
sexismmo
sexisom
sexissmo
sexsimo
sexxismo
ssexismo
sxeismo

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sexismo - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

Edit distance from "sexismo"

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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sexismo"?

"sexismo" is spelled S-E-X-I-S-M-O. The IPA pronunciation is [sekˈsismo].

What does "sexismo" mean?

As a noun, "sexismo" means: Discriminación de las personas en razón de su sexo, de modo tal que un sexo se considera superior a otro.

What words are commonly confused with "sexismo"?

"sexismo" is commonly confused with "sismo". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "sexismo"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sexismo" is [sekˈsismo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "sexismo" come from?

"sexismo" is a Spanish word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.

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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sexismo", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

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