business

//ˈbɪzˌnəs/ ou /ˈbɪzˌnɪs// noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#6,508

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

business is aPortuguesenoun. It means: negócio, biznesse, negócios Pronounced /ˈbɪzˌnəs/ ou /ˈbɪzˌnɪs/. It ranks #6,508 in Portuguese word frequency.

Key facts for business
PropertyValue
Headwordbusiness
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/ˈbɪzˌnəs/ ou /ˈbɪzˌnɪs/
Letters8
Frequency rank#6,508
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of business in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for business is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈbɪzˌnəs/ ou /ˈbɪzˌnɪs/. Corpus data places it at rank #6,508 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "negócio, biznesse, negócios".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for business, with forms such as "bbusiness", "bsuiness", and "buisness". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.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 business, spelled B-U-S-I-N-E-S-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    negócio, biznesse, negócios

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: bbusiness,bsuiness,buisness,busienss,busines,businness,businses,busniess,bussiness,ubsiness

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for business

Misspelling Variants of "business"

bbusiness9bsuiness8buisness8busienss8busines7businness9businses8busniess8
Misspelling Variants of "business"

Frequency rank: #6,508 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "business"?
"business" is spelled B-U-S-I-N-E-S-S. The IPA pronunciation is /ˈbɪzˌnəs/ ou /ˈbɪzˌnɪs/.
What does "business" mean?
As a noun, "business" means: negócio, biznesse, negócios
What are common misspellings of "business"?
Common misspellings include "bbusiness", "bsuiness", "buisness", "busienss", "busines". The correct spelling is "business".
How do you pronounce "business"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "business" is /ˈbɪzˌnəs/ ou /ˈbɪzˌnɪs/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "business" come from?
"business" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.