faisão

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for faisão is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /faj.ˈzɐ̃w̃/. Corpus data places it at rank #60,353 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "nome vulgar de aves galináceas pertencentes à família dos Fasianídeos que apresentam plumagem de grande beleza; seu nome científico é Phasianus colchicus".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for faisão in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 faisão, spelled F-A-I-S-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.