sexto
The verdict
“sexto” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #7,338. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,338
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - refere-se àquele que ocupa a posição sexta em uma série; o que vem depois do quinto
Corpus desk
Index PT-sexto · sexto · Portuguese
sexto · rank #7,338 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,338
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH Steven
Nearest frequency peer: Steven (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “sexto”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- recompensa
recompensa
92,670 corpus weight
- recorrer
recorrer
92,669 corpus weight
- sexto
sexto
92,663 corpus weight
- Steven
Steven
92,662 corpus weight
- take
take
92,660 corpus weight
- testa
testa
92,658 corpus weight
What this shows “sexto” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sexto |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #7,338 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “sexto”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around sexto, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #7,338 among 1,185 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "refere-se àquele que ocupa a posição sexta em uma série; o que vem depois do quinto".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for sexto, with forms such as "esxto", "setxo", and "sexot". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sito", "solto", "susto", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is sexto, spelled S-E-X-T-O.
Definition
- 1refere-se àquele que ocupa a posição sexta em uma série; o que vem depois do quinto
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sexto appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Avante passa, e lá no sexto Céu
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esxto
- setxo
- sexot
- sextto
- sexxto
- ssexto
- sxeto
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sexto - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).