-ex

suffix

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.

Key facts for -ex
PropertyValue
Headword-ex
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechSuffix
Letters3
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “-ex” em português

-exnão entra no top 100.000 do português: zona de termos técnicos, arcaicos ou escassos.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    sufixo 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "-ex"?
"-ex" is spelled --E-X.
What does "-ex" mean?
As a suffix, "-ex" means: sufixo adjutório formante de palavras que consoam conotativamente e pseudamente com efeito leve de realce relativamente ao indicado pelo radical
What language does "-ex" come from?
"-ex" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list