cortesia
The verdict
“cortesia” is a regularly-used Portuguese word, ranked #9,319 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #9,319
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 8
- letters
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - qualidade de cortês
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 | cortesia |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,319 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cortesia” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for cortesia is 8 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #9,319 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "qualidade de cortês".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for cortesia, with forms such as "ccortesia", "coretsia", and "corrtesia". 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, "cortês", "correia", "correria", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is cortesia, spelled C-O-R-T-E-S-I-A.
Definition
- 1qualidade de cortês
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This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccortesia,coretsia,corrtesia,corteisa,cortesai,cortessia,cortseia,corttesia,cotresia,crotesia,ocrtesia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cortesia - 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 “cortesia”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is C-O-R-T-E-S-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “cortês” - see the side-by-side comparison. cortesia vs cortês
- 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.