sertão
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,834
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
sertão is aPortuguesenoun. It means: zona pouco habitada do interior do Brasil, sobretudo a região semi-árida do norte-ocidental It ranks #7,834 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with seta and sexta.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sertão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #7,834 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for sertão is 6 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #7,834 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for sertão, with forms such as "esrtão", "serrtão", and "sertoã". 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, "seta", "sexta", "sexto", 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 sertão, spelled S-E-R-T-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1zona pouco habitada do interior do Brasil, sobretudo a região semi-árida do norte-ocidental
- 2terreno coberto de mato, longe do litoral
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: esrtão,serrtão,sertoã,serttão,serãto,setrão,sretão,ssertão
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sertão
Misspelling Variants of "sertão"
Frequency rank: #7,834 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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