cecê

//ˌseˈse// noun

Letters

4 characters

Language

Portuguese

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

cecê is aPortuguesenoun. It means: odor corporal humano desagradável, perceptível especialmente nas axilas e virilha, causado pela proliferação de microrganismos (como bactérias e fungos) alimentados pela umidade do suor, ou exalado... Pronounced /ˌseˈse/.

Key facts for cecê
PropertyValue
Headwordcecê
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/ˌseˈse/
Letters4
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

cecê is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Portuguese corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for cecê is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˌseˈse/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "odor corporal humano desagradável, perceptível especialmente nas axilas e virilha, causado pela proliferação de microrganismos (como bactérias e fungos) alimentados pela umidade do suor, ou exalado...".

No misspelling variants are generated for cecê in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 Portuguese form is cecê, spelled C-E-C-Ê, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    odor corporal humano desagradável, perceptível especialmente nas axilas e virilha, causado pela proliferação de microrganismos (como bactérias e fungos) alimentados pela umidade do suor, ou exalado pelo próprio suor em situações anômalas como por efeito medicamentoso ou patológico, como no caso do diabetes

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cecê"?
"cecê" is spelled C-E-C-Ê. The IPA pronunciation is /ˌseˈse/.
What does "cecê" mean?
As a noun, "cecê" means: odor corporal humano desagradável, perceptível especialmente nas axilas e virilha, causado pela proliferação de microrganismos (como bactérias e fungos) alimentados pela umidade do suor, ou exalado...
How do you pronounce "cecê"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cecê" is /ˌseˈse/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cecê" come from?
"cecê" is a Portuguese 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. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.