sexe

/\sɛks\/ noun

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,496

in French word usage

Misspellings

5

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

sexe is aFrenchnoun. It means: Attribut utilisé pour classer un individu dans les espèces biologiques employant un mode de reproduction sexué. Pronounced \sɛks\. It ranks #1,496 in French word frequency. Often confused with six and ste.

Key facts for sexe
PropertyValue
Headwordsexe
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sɛks\
Letters4
Frequency rank#1,496
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of sexe in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for sexe is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɛks\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,496 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for sexe, with forms such as "esxe", "seex", and "sexxe". 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, "six", "ste", "she", 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 French form is sexe, spelled S-E-X-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Attribut utilisé pour classer un individu dans les espèces biologiques employant un mode de reproduction sexué.
  2. 2
    L’ensemble des caractères masculins ou féminins.
  3. 3
    Les hommes ou les femmes.
  4. 4
    Rapport sexuel ; acte sexuel ; accouplement ; sexualité.
  5. 5
    Organe sexuel.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: esxe,seex,sexxe,ssexe,sxee

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sexe

Misspelling Variants of "sexe"

esxe4seex4sexxe5ssexe5sxee4
Misspelling Variants of "sexe"

Frequency rank: #1,496 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sexe"?
"sexe" is spelled S-E-X-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sɛks\.
What does "sexe" mean?
As a noun, "sexe" means: Attribut utilisé pour classer un individu dans les espèces biologiques employant un mode de reproduction sexué.
What words are commonly confused with "sexe"?
"sexe" is commonly confused with "six", "ste", "she". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sexe"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sexe" is \sɛks\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sexe" come from?
"sexe" is a French 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.