sexo

/[ˈsekso]/ noun

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#922

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

6

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

sexo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Condición biológica que distingue al macho de la hembra, en las especies que presentan esta distinción Pronounced [ˈsekso]. It ranks #922 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with so and six.

Key facts for sexo
PropertyValue
Headwordsexo
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈsekso]
Letters4
Frequency rank#922
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of sexo in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for sexo is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsekso]. Corpus data places it at rank #922 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for sexo, with forms such as "cexo", "esxo", and "seox". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "so", "six", "sto", and more, 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 sexo, spelled S-E-X-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Condición biológica que distingue al macho de la hembra, en las especies que presentan esta distinción
  2. 2
    Conjunto de individuos de uno u otro sexo₁
  3. 3
    Por extensión, conjunto de roles y propiedades sociales que convencionalmente se atribuyen a cada uno de estos conjuntos en las culturas humanas
  4. 4
    Órganos genitales externos
  5. 5
    Acto sexual, biológicamente funcional a la reproducción de los animales vertebrados, en que entran en contacto los genitales de los participantes

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: cexo,esxo,seox,sexxo,ssexo,sxeo

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sexo

Misspelling Variants of "sexo"

cexo4esxo4seox4sexxo5ssexo5sxeo4
Misspelling Variants of "sexo"

Frequency rank: #922 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sexo"?
"sexo" is spelled S-E-X-O. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈsekso].
What does "sexo" mean?
As a noun, "sexo" means: Condición biológica que distingue al macho de la hembra, en las especies que presentan esta distinción
What words are commonly confused with "sexo"?
"sexo" is commonly confused with "so", "six", "sto". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sexo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sexo" is [ˈsekso]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sexo" come from?
"sexo" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.