sensei
/sẽ.ˈsej/
The verdict
“sensei” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #19,843. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,843
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - instrutor de arte marcial
Corpus desk
Index PT-sensei · sensei · Portuguese
sensei · rank #19,843 · 8 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,843
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH sensibilizar
Nearest frequency peer: sensibilizar (+1 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.
Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “sensei”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- rubi
rubi
80,161 corpus weight
- sensei
sensei
80,158 corpus weight
- sensibilizar
sensibilizar
80,157 corpus weight
- Sibéria
Sibéria
80,155 corpus weight
- sobrado
sobrado
80,153 corpus weight
- sobrar
sobrar
80,152 corpus weight
What this shows “sensei” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
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 | sensei |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /sẽ.ˈsej/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #19,843 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “sensei”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around sensei (IPA /sẽ.ˈsej/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,843 among 1,185 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "instrutor de arte marcial".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for sensei, with forms such as "esnsei", "senesi", and "sennsei". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "senti", "senso", "serei", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is sensei, spelled S-E-N-S-E-I.
Definition
- 1instrutor de arte marcial
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esnsei
- senesi
- sennsei
- sensie
- senssei
- sesnei
- snesei
- ssensei
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sensei - 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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sensei", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).