sexo
\sɛk.so\
The verdict
“sexo” is uncommon French (frequency #75,221 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,221
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abréviation de sexologie : étude de la sexualité et de ses troubles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sexo · sexo · French
sexo · rank #75,221 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,221
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH servilité
Nearest frequency peer: servilité (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « sexo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- serbo
serbo
24,783 corpus weight
- serpentant
serpentant
24,782 corpus weight
- servilité
servilité
24,781 corpus weight
- sexo
sexo
24,780 corpus weight
- sextuple
sextuple
24,779 corpus weight
- shakespeari…
shakespearien
24,778 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sexo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sexo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛk.so\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #75,221 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sexo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sexo is uncommon French at frequency #75,221 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɛk.so\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Abréviation de sexologie : étude de la sexualité et de ses troubles.".
sexo doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is sexo, spelled S-E-X-O.
Definition
- 1Abréviation de sexologie : étude de la sexualité et de ses troubles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sexo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’un des premiers motifs de consultation en sexo, c’est l’absence de désir, explique-t-il.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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