sexo
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#678
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
sexo is aPortuguesenoun. It means: definição biológica de gênero de um animal ou vegetal; pode ser feminino, masculino ou hermafrodita; quando não se tem definição considera-se um ser vivo como assexuado Pronounced /ˈsɛ.ksu/. It ranks #678 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with só and sido.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sexo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsɛ.ksu/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #678 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for sexo is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈsɛ.ksu/. Corpus data places it at rank #678 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for sexo, with forms such as "esxo", "seox", and "sexxo". 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, "só", "sido", "solo", 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 sexo, spelled S-E-X-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1definição biológica de gênero de um animal ou vegetal; pode ser feminino, masculino ou hermafrodita; quando não se tem definição considera-se um ser vivo como assexuado
- 2ato de copular, coito; modo reprodutivo adotado pelas espécies animais e vegetais sexuadas
- 3ato sexual; como atividade libidinosa de união humana pode ser oral, anal, vaginal, virtual (sem interação física)
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: esxo,seox,sexxo,ssexo,sxeo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sexo
Misspelling Variants of "sexo"
Frequency rank: #678 in Portuguese
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