senso
/ˈsẽ.su/
The verdict
“senso” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #3,290. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,290
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - juízo claro
Corpus desk
Index PT-senso · senso · Portuguese
senso · rank #3,290 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,290
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH seguido
Nearest frequency peer: seguido (-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 “senso”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- regular
regular
96,716 corpus weight
- resgate
resgate
96,715 corpus weight
- seguido
seguido
96,712 corpus weight
- senso
senso
96,711 corpus weight
- tênis
tênis
96,707 corpus weight
- urgente
urgente
96,706 corpus weight
What this shows “senso” 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 | senso |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsẽ.su/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,290 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “senso”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around senso (IPA /ˈsẽ.su/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,290 among 1,185 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for senso, with forms such as "esnso", "sennso", and "senos". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sexo", "sono", "sons", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is senso, spelled S-E-N-S-O.
Definition
- 1juízo claro
- 2ato de raciocinar
- 3sisudez; circunspecção; siso
- 4sentido, direção
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esnso
- sennso
- senos
- sensso
- sesno
- sneso
- ssenso
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of senso - 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 "senso", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).