-ex
The verdict
“-ex” is uncommon Portuguese (outside the top frequency list), classed as a suffix. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 3
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sufixo adjutório formante de palavras que consoam conotativamente e pseudamente com efeito leve de realce relativamente ao indicado pelo radical
Corpus desk
Index PT-ex · -ex · Portuguese
-ex · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "-" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | -ex |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Suffix |
| Letters | 3 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “-ex” em português
Rare enough to double-check
-ex is uncommon Portuguese outside the top frequency list, classed as asuffix. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "sufixo adjutório formante de palavras que consoam conotativamente e pseudamente com efeito leve de realce relativamente ao indicado pelo radical".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for -ex, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is -ex, spelled --E-X.
Definition
- 1sufixo adjutório formante de palavras que consoam conotativamente e pseudamente com efeito leve de realce relativamente ao indicado pelo radical
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.