discussão

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for discussão is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /diʃ.ku.ˈsɐ̃w̃/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,970 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for discussão, with forms such as "ddiscussão", "dicsussão", and "disccussão". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "dissuasão", "discurso", "discursar", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 discussão, spelled D-I-S-C-U-S-S-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.