xô
/ʃo/
The verdict
“xô” sits in 2 confusable pairs (corpus #36,295) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #36,295
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 27
- “X” headwords
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - usa-se para xotar, para fazer fugir aos animais
Corpus desk
Index PT-xo · xô · Portuguese
xô · rank #36,295 · 0 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,295
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 27
- PHOTO-FINISH vitalício
Nearest frequency peer: vitalício (-5 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 “xô”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- vertigem
vertigem
63,715 corpus weight
- vincular
vincular
63,713 corpus weight
- vitalício
vitalício
63,711 corpus weight
- xô
xô
63,706 corpus weight
- abnegação
abnegação
63,701 corpus weight
- acarajé
acarajé
63,700 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “xô” 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 | xô |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | /ʃo/ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #36,295 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “xô”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for xô is neighbouring look-alikes ("xota", "X"), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced /ʃo/. Frequency #36,295 among 27 “X” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for xô, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "xota", "X", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented 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 xô, spelled X-Ô.
Definition
- 1usa-se para xotar, para fazer fugir aos animais
- 2comunica a vontade a alguém que este deixe um local, distancie-se
This word in other languages
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.