sargento
/sɐɾ.ˈʒẽ.tu/
The verdict
“sargento” is a regularly-used Portuguese word, ranked #7,215 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #7,215
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 8
- letters
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - posto de praça graduado de qualquer corporação militar que, na escala hierárquica, está entre o cabo e o subtenente ou suboficial
| 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) |
Where “sargento” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for sargento is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /sɐɾ.ˈʒẽ.tu/. Corpus data places it at rank #7,215 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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
- 1posto de praça graduado de qualquer corporação militar que, na escala hierárquica, está entre o cabo e o subtenente ou suboficial
- 2posto de praça graduado de qualquer corporação militar que, na escala hierárquica, está entre o cabo e o subtenente ou suboficial
- 3militar que ocupa um desses postos
This word in other languages
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.
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.
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Using “sargento”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is S-A-R-G-E-N-T-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /sɐɾ.ˈʒẽ.tu/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
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.