sargento

Name: sargento, Portuguese Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

/sɐɾ.ˈʒẽ.tu/

//sɐɾ.ˈʒẽ.tu// noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“sargento” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #7,215. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#7,215
frequency rank, Portuguese: 1,185
“S” headwords: 12
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - posto de praça graduado de qualquer corporação militar que, na escala hierárquica, está entre o cabo e o subtenente ou suboficial

Corpus desk

Index PT-sargento · sargento · Portuguese

sargento · rank #7,215 · 12 variants · 0 confusables

FREQ-COMMON #7,215
LEN-LONG 8 letters
VOW-3 3 vowels
CONFUS-0 No pairs
VAR-MID 12 variants
BOOK-MID 1,185
PHOTO-FINISH sobrinha

Nearest frequency peer: sobrinha (+2 rank slots)

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.

rapariga

92,794
sargento

92,786
sobrinha

92,784
sustentar

92,779
tesão

92,776
tubo

92,774

What this shows “sargento” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.

Key facts for sargento
Property	Value
Headword	sargento
Language	Portuguese
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	/sɐɾ.ˈʒẽ.tu/
Letters	8
Frequency rank	#7,215
Misspellings tracked	12
Confusable pairs	0
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequência do íman ortográfico “sargento”

A frequência vai do punhado de palavras do dia a dia (esquerda) à cauda longa quase nunca usada (direita).sargentocai aqui:

#7,215

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

A escala é logarítmica (cada marca ≈ 10× mais rara). Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “sobrinha” (#7,217), “sustentar” (#7,222), “rapariga” (#7,207). Entre 1,185 lemas com “S”, “sargento” fica em #7,215. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around sargento (IPA /sɐɾ.ˈʒẽ.tu/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,215 among 1,185 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for sargento, with forms such as "asrgento", "sagrento", and "saregnto". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is sargento, spelled S-A-R-G-E-N-T-O.

Definition

1
posto de praça graduado de qualquer corporação militar que, na escala hierárquica, está entre o cabo e o subtenente ou suboficial
2
posto de praça graduado de qualquer corporação militar que, na escala hierárquica, está entre o cabo e o subtenente ou suboficial
3
militar que ocupa um desses postos

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how sargento appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

O Ministério Público constituiu hoje arguido um sargento do exército, envolvido no processo sobre a morte dos recrutas dos comandos Hugo Abreu e Dylan Araújo Silva, disse à Lusa fonte judicial.

This word in other languages

sergeant(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

asrgento
sagrento
saregnto
sargennto
sargenot
sargentto
sargetno
sarggento
sargneto
sarrgento
sragento
ssargento

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sargento - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

Edit distance from "sargento"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sargento"?

"sargento" is spelled S-A-R-G-E-N-T-O. The IPA pronunciation is /sɐɾ.ˈʒẽ.tu/.

What does "sargento" mean?

As a noun, "sargento" means: posto de praça graduado de qualquer corporação militar que, na escala hierárquica, está entre o cabo e o subtenente ou suboficial

What are common misspellings of "sargento"?

Common misspellings include "asrgento", "sagrento", "saregnto", "sargennto", "sargenot". The correct spelling is "sargento".

How do you pronounce "sargento"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sargento" is /sɐɾ.ˈʒẽ.tu/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "sargento" come from?

"sargento" 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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sargento", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

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