heurística

//ew.ˈɾiʃ.ti.kɐ// noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#74,021

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

heurística is aPortuguesenoun. It means: disciplina que estuda o descobrimento ou a investigação Pronounced /ew.ˈɾiʃ.ti.kɐ/.

Key facts for heurística
PropertyValue
Headwordheurística
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/ew.ˈɾiʃ.ti.kɐ/
Letters10
Frequency rank#74,021
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for heurística is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ew.ˈɾiʃ.ti.kɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #74,021 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for heurística 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 heurística, spelled H-E-U-R-Í-S-T-I-C-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    disciplina que estuda o descobrimento ou a investigação
  2. 2
    conjunto de regras simples que podem explicar os processos de tomada de decisão e solução de problemas, quando estes são complexos ou não se tem a informação completa sobre os mesmos
  3. 3
    técnica para resolver um problema quando não se sabe se a solução está correta

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #74,021 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "heurística"?
"heurística" is spelled H-E-U-R-Í-S-T-I-C-A. The IPA pronunciation is /ew.ˈɾiʃ.ti.kɐ/.
What does "heurística" mean?
As a noun, "heurística" means: disciplina que estuda o descobrimento ou a investigação
How do you pronounce "heurística"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "heurística" is /ew.ˈɾiʃ.ti.kɐ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "heurística" come from?
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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.