gestão

//ʒɨʃ.ˈtɐ̃w̃// noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,677

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

8

similar word pairs

gestão is aPortuguesenoun. It means: ação ou resultado de gerir (um negócio, uma empresa por exemplo) Pronounced /ʒɨʃ.ˈtɐ̃w̃/. It ranks #1,677 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with gosto and gesto.

Key facts for gestão
PropertyValue
Headwordgestão
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/ʒɨʃ.ˈtɐ̃w̃/
Letters6
Frequency rank#1,677
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of gestão in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for gestão is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ʒɨʃ.ˈtɐ̃w̃/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,677 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "ação ou resultado de gerir (um negócio, uma empresa por exemplo)".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for gestão, with forms such as "egstão", "gesstão", and "gestoã". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "gosto", "gesto", "gostar", and more, 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 gestão, spelled G-E-S-T-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    ação ou resultado de gerir (um negócio, uma empresa por exemplo)

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: egstão,gesstão,gestoã,gesttão,gesãto,getsão,ggestão,gsetão

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for gestão

Misspelling Variants of "gestão"

egstão6gesstão7gestoã6gesttão7gesãto6getsão6ggestão7gsetão6
Misspelling Variants of "gestão"

Frequency rank: #1,677 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gestão"?
"gestão" is spelled G-E-S-T-Ã-O. The IPA pronunciation is /ʒɨʃ.ˈtɐ̃w̃/.
What does "gestão" mean?
As a noun, "gestão" means: ação ou resultado de gerir (um negócio, uma empresa por exemplo)
What words are commonly confused with "gestão"?
"gestão" is commonly confused with "gosto", "gesto", "gostar". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "gestão"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "gestão" is /ʒɨʃ.ˈtɐ̃w̃/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "gestão" come from?
"gestão" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Other entries that begin with the letter G in our Portuguese index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.