X

symbol

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

corpus weight

What this shows As barras situam “X” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

X vs xô
0% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for X
PropertyValue
HeadwordX
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechSymbol
Letters1
Frequency rank#529
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “X”

A frequência vai do punhado de palavras do dia a dia (esquerda) à cauda longa quase nunca usada (direita).Xcai aqui:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

A escala é logarítmica (cada marca ≈ 10× mais rara). Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “serviço” (#528), “agosto” (#531), “porto” (#526). Entre 27 lemas com “X”, “X” fica em #529. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    forma em caixa alta da vigésima quarta letra do alfabeto latino usado em português; xis
  2. 2
    algarismo romano que representa o numeral dez
  3. 3
    indica uma variável cujo valor é desconhecido
  4. 4
    tipo de raio que atravessa os objetos sólidos e por isso tem utilidades médicas
  5. 5
    algo do qual não sabemos nada

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how X appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "X"?
"X" is spelled X.
What does "X" mean?
As a symbol, "X" means: forma em caixa alta da vigésima quarta letra do alfabeto latino usado em português; xis
What words are commonly confused with "X"?
"X" is commonly confused with "xô". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "X" come from?
"X" is a Portuguese word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list