setor
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,629
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
setor is aPortuguesenoun. It means: parte de um círculo delimitada por dois raios e o segmento de curva correspondente na circunferência It ranks #1,629 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with sexo and star.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | setor |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,629 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for setor is 5 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #1,629 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for setor, with forms such as "estor", "seotr", and "setorr". 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, "sexo", "star", "stop", 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 setor, spelled S-E-T-O-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1parte de um círculo delimitada por dois raios e o segmento de curva correspondente na circunferência
- 2região da zona de combate onde uma dada unidade desenvolve suas operações
- 3instrumento usado para medir a distância angular entre dois astros
- 4parte de um bloco de armazenamento em disco
- 5uma parte distinta de uma sociedade ou da economia de uma nação
- 6seção ou zona de uma cidade
- 7dispositivo que é usado na cabeça do volante, na forma de um sector circular das extremidades do arco
- 8placa de madeira, também sob a forma de um setor circular
- 9polo em que se assenta, quando o navio é fundeado
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: estor,seotr,setorr,setro,settor,ssetor,steor
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for setor
Misspelling Variants of "setor"
Frequency rank: #1,629 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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