seno
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#48,110
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
seno is aPortuguesenoun. It means: em relação a um dos ângulos agudos de um triângulo retângulo, é o resultado da divisão do valor do cateto oposto a este ângulo pelo valor da hipotenusa Pronounced /ˈsenu/. Often confused with só and ser.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | seno |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsenu/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #48,110 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for seno is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈsenu/. Corpus data places it at rank #48,110 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for seno, with forms such as "esno", "senno", and "seon". 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", "ser", "seu", 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 seno, spelled S-E-N-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1em relação a um dos ângulos agudos de um triângulo retângulo, é o resultado da divisão do valor do cateto oposto a este ângulo pelo valor da hipotenusa
- 2é a projeção no eixo vertical, num plano cartesiano ortogonal, do segmento de reta que parte da origem dos eixos (horizontal e vertical) até o ponto de encontro com a circunferência de valor de raio 1 (e centro na origem dos eixos)
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: esno,senno,seon,sneo,sseno
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for seno
Misspelling Variants of "seno"
Frequency rank: #48,110 in Portuguese
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