seio
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,108
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
seio is aPortuguesenoun. It means: curvatura, sinuosidade Pronounced /ˈsɐj.u/. It ranks #8,108 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with só and si.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | seio |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsɐj.u/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #8,108 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for seio is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈsɐj.u/. Corpus data places it at rank #8,108 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for seio, with forms such as "esio", "seoi", and "sieo". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "só", "si", "ser", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is seio, spelled S-E-I-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1curvatura, sinuosidade
- 2o peito humano
- 3cada uma das glândulas mamárias femininas
- 4parte íntima; âmago
- 5útero
- 6ambiente
- 7convívio, intimidade
- 8espaço entre as mamas de uma mulher
Synonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: esio,seoi,sieo,sseio
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for seio
Misspelling Variants of "seio"
Frequency rank: #8,108 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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