sexismo
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#28,158
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
sexismo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Discriminación de las personas en razón de su sexo, de modo tal que un sexo se considera superior a otro. Pronounced [sekˈsismo]. Often confused with sismo.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for sexismo is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [sekˈsismo]. Corpus data places it at rank #28,158 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for sexismo, with forms such as "cexismo", "esxismo", and "seixsmo". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "sismo", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is sexismo, spelled S-E-X-I-S-M-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Discriminación de las personas en razón de su sexo, de modo tal que un sexo se considera superior a otro.
- 2Creencia de que un sexo es superior a otro.
- 3Condiciones o actitudes que promueven estereotipos de roles sociales establecidos sobre diferencias sexuales
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cexismo,esxismo,seixsmo,seximso,sexismmo,sexisom,sexissmo,sexsimo,sexxismo,ssexismo,sxeismo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sexismo
Misspelling Variants of "sexismo"
Frequency rank: #28,158 in Spanish
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