concurso
/kõ.ˈkuɾ.su/
The verdict
“concurso” is a regularly-used Portuguese word, ranked #1,877 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #1,877
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 8
- letters
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - ato de concorrer
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 | concurso |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kõ.ˈkuɾ.su/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,877 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “concurso” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for concurso is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /kõ.ˈkuɾ.su/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,877 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for concurso, with forms such as "cconcurso", "cnocurso", and "cocnurso". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "confuso", "converso", "concerto", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 concurso, spelled C-O-N-C-U-R-S-O.
Definition
- 1ato de concorrer
- 2afluência, concorrência de muitas pessoas ao mesmo lugar ou fim
- 3cooperação
- 4colaboração para um resultado
- 5provas documentais ou práticas prestadas pelo candidato a um determinado lugar ou emprego
- 6ato de várias pessoas disputarem entre si uma adjudicação, um prêmio ou outra coisa qualquer
- 7intersecção de duas linhas
- 8pretensão de duas ou mais pessoas ao mesmo direito
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cconcurso,cnocurso,cocnurso,conccurso,concruso,concuros,concurrso,concursso,concusro,conncurso,conucrso,ocncurso
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of concurso - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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.
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Using “concurso”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is C-O-N-C-U-R-S-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /kõ.ˈkuɾ.su/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “confuso” - see the side-by-side comparison. concurso vs confuso
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.