X
The verdict
“X” sits in 1 confusable pair (corpus #529) as a symbol. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #529
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 27
- “X” headwords
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - forma em caixa alta da vigésima quarta letra do alfabeto latino usado em português; xis
Corpus desk
Index PT-x · X · Portuguese
X · rank #529 · 0 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-CORE #529
- LEN-SHORT 1 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 27
- PHOTO-FINISH serviço
Nearest frequency peer: serviço (-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.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “X”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- ontem
ontem
99,476 corpus weight
- porto
porto
99,475 corpus weight
- serviço
serviço
99,473 corpus weight
- X
X
99,472 corpus weight
- agosto
agosto
99,470 corpus weight
- bastante
bastante
99,469 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “X” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.
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 | X |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Symbol |
| Letters | 1 |
| Frequency rank | #529 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “X”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for X is neighbouring look-alikes ("xô"), not just typos; it is asymbol. Frequency #529 among 27 “X” headwords. 5 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No misspelling variants are generated for X in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "xô", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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. The correct Portuguese form is X, spelled X.
Definition
- 1forma em caixa alta da vigésima quarta letra do alfabeto latino usado em português; xis
- 2algarismo romano que representa o numeral dez
- 3indica uma variável cujo valor é desconhecido
- 4tipo de raio que atravessa os objetos sólidos e por isso tem utilidades médicas
- 5algo do qual não sabemos nada
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how X appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
O X da questão.
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.