sec
\sɛk\
The verdict
“sec” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,268) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,268
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - seco
Corpus desk
Index PT-sec · sec · Portuguese
sec · rank #19,268 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,268
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH sereno
Nearest frequency peer: sereno (+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.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “sec”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- romeno
romeno
80,737 corpus weight
- sec
sec
80,733 corpus weight
- sereno
sereno
80,731 corpus weight
- ship
ship
80,730 corpus weight
- sobrancelha
sobrancelha
80,729 corpus weight
- subjacente
subjacente
80,725 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “sec” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sec |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sɛk\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #19,268 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “sec”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sec is neighbouring look-alikes ("só", "si", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \sɛk\. Frequency #19,268 among 1,185 “S” headwords. Gloss: "seco".
No generated misspelling entries exist for sec in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "só", "si", "su", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is sec, spelled S-E-C.
Definition
- 1seco
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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).