a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush is 43 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ə bəː(r)d in ðə hænd iz wəː(r)θ tuː in ðə buʃ/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "mais vale um pássaro na mão do que dois voando".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, spelled A- -B-I-R-D- -I-N- -T-H-E- -H-A-N-D- -I-S- -W-O-R-T-H- -T-W-O- -I-N- -T-H-E- -B-U-S-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.