censo

//ˈsẽ.su// noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,830

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

censo is aPortuguesenoun. It means: pesquisa que visa a coleta de dados estatísticos de um determinado lugar Pronounced /ˈsẽ.su/. It ranks #5,830 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with ceo and certo.

Key facts for censo
PropertyValue
Headwordcenso
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/ˈsẽ.su/
Letters5
Frequency rank#5,830
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of censo in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for censo is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈsẽ.su/. Corpus data places it at rank #5,830 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "pesquisa que visa a coleta de dados estatísticos de um determinado lugar".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for censo, with forms such as "ccenso", "cennso", and "cenos". 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, "ceo", "certo", "cinco", 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 Portuguese form is censo, spelled C-E-N-S-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    pesquisa que visa a coleta de dados estatísticos de um determinado lugar

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccenso,cennso,cenos,censso,cesno,cneso,ecnso

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for censo

Misspelling Variants of "censo"

ccenso6cennso6cenos5censso6cesno5cneso5ecnso5
Misspelling Variants of "censo"

Frequency rank: #5,830 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "censo"?
"censo" is spelled C-E-N-S-O. The IPA pronunciation is /ˈsẽ.su/.
What does "censo" mean?
As a noun, "censo" means: pesquisa que visa a coleta de dados estatísticos de um determinado lugar
What words are commonly confused with "censo"?
"censo" is commonly confused with "ceo", "certo", "cinco". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "censo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "censo" is /ˈsẽ.su/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "censo" come from?
"censo" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Portuguese index:

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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.