economista
/i.kɔ.nu.ˈmiʃ.tɐ/
The verdict
“economista” is a regularly-used Portuguese word, ranked #7,631 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #7,631
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 10
- letters
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - pessoa graduada em economia ou dedicada a essa área
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 | economista |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /i.kɔ.nu.ˈmiʃ.tɐ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #7,631 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “economista” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for economista is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /i.kɔ.nu.ˈmiʃ.tɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #7,631 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "pessoa graduada em economia ou dedicada a essa área".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for economista, with forms such as "ceonomista", "ecconomista", and "ecnoomista". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "ecologista", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is economista, spelled E-C-O-N-O-M-I-S-T-A.
Definition
- 1pessoa graduada em economia ou dedicada a essa área
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ceonomista,ecconomista,ecnoomista,econmoista,econnomista,econoimsta,economisat,economissta,economistta,economitsa,econommista,economsita,ecoonmista,eocnomista
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of economista - 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 “economista”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is E-C-O-N-O-M-I-S-T-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /i.kɔ.nu.ˈmiʃ.tɐ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “ecologista” - see the side-by-side comparison. economista vs ecologista
- 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.