sessenta

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for sessenta is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /sɨ.ˈsẽ.tɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #7,696 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "número equivalente a seis dezenas; cardinalidade de um conjunto que contenha seis dezenas de elementos distintos; representado pelo símbolo 60 (algarismos arábicos) ou LX (algarismos romanos)".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for sessenta, with forms such as "esssenta", "sesenta", and "sesesnta". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "setenta", 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 sessenta, spelled S-E-S-S-E-N-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.