-ex
The verdict
“-ex” is outside the top-ranked Portuguese vocabulary, used as a suffix - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 3
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - sufixo adjutório formante de palavras que consoam conotativamente e pseudamente com efeito leve de realce relativamente ao indicado pelo radical
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | -ex |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Suffix |
| Letters | 3 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “-ex” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for -ex is 3 letters long, classified as a suffix. 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: "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.
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Using “-ex”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is --E-X - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.