sexo
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sexo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈsekso] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #922 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Condición biológica que distingue al macho de la hembra, en las especies que presentan esta distinción
- 2Conjunto de individuos de uno u otro sexo₁
- 3Por extensión, conjunto de roles y propiedades sociales que convencionalmente se atribuyen a cada uno de estos conjuntos en las culturas humanas
- 4Órganos genitales externos
- 5Acto sexual, biológicamente funcional a la reproducción de los animales vertebrados, en que entran en contacto los genitales de los participantes
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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"
Frequency rank: #922 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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