sete
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#858
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
sete is aPortuguesenum. It means: cardinalidade de um conjunto que contenha sete elementos distintos; número equivalente a seis mais um, representado pelo símbolo 7 em algarismos arábicos ou VII/vii em algarismos romanos Pronounced /ˈsɛ.tʃi/, /ˈsɛ.ti/. It ranks #858 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with seu and sex.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sete |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Num |
| IPA | /ˈsɛ.tʃi/, /ˈsɛ.ti/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #858 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for sete is 4 letters long, classified as anum, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈsɛ.tʃi/, /ˈsɛ.ti/. Corpus data places it at rank #858 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for sete, with forms such as "seet", "sette", and "ssete". 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, "seu", "sex", "she", 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 sete, spelled S-E-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1cardinalidade de um conjunto que contenha sete elementos distintos; número equivalente a seis mais um, representado pelo símbolo 7 em algarismos arábicos ou VII/vii em algarismos romanos
- 2que ocupa a sétima posição em uma lista ou ordenação
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: seet,sette,ssete,stee
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sete
Misspelling Variants of "sete"
Frequency rank: #858 in Portuguese
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