esturjão
/iʃ.tuɾ.ˈʒɐ̃w̃/
The verdict
“esturjão” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #89,078 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #89,078
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - tipo de peixe de pele, da família dos acipenserídeos, encontrado em águas muito frias do hemisfério norte; sua ova é bastante procurada para se preparar o caviar
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | esturjão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /iʃ.tuɾ.ˈʒɐ̃w̃/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #89,078 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “esturjão” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for esturjão is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /iʃ.tuɾ.ˈʒɐ̃w̃/. Corpus data places it at rank #89,078 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "tipo de peixe de pele, da família dos acipenserídeos, encontrado em águas muito frias do hemisfério norte; sua ova é bastante procurada para se preparar o caviar".
esturjão doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is esturjão, spelled E-S-T-U-R-J-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1tipo de peixe de pele, da família dos acipenserídeos, encontrado em águas muito frias do hemisfério norte; sua ova é bastante procurada para se preparar o caviar
This word in other languages
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 “esturjão”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is E-S-T-U-R-J-Ã-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /iʃ.tuɾ.ˈʒɐ̃w̃/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.