inquérito
/ĩ.ˈkɛ.ɾi.tu/
The verdict
“inquérito” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #5,312. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,312
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,526
- “I” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - ato de inquirir
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inquérito |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ĩ.ˈkɛ.ɾi.tu/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #5,312 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “inquérito” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around inquérito (IPA /ĩ.ˈkɛ.ɾi.tu/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,312 among 1,526 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "ato de inquirir".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for inquérito, with forms such as "innquérito", "inqquérito", and "inquréito". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is inquérito, spelled I-N-Q-U-É-R-I-T-O.
Definition
- 1ato de inquirir
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: innquérito,inqquérito,inquréito,inquéirto,inquériot,inquéritto,inquérrito,inquértio,inqéurito,inuqérito,iqnuérito,niquérito
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of inquérito - 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 “inquérito”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is I-N-Q-U-É-R-I-T-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ĩ.ˈkɛ.ɾi.tu/ (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.