Jesus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for Jesus is 5 letters long, classified as anintj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ʒe.ˈzus/, /ʒe.ˈzujs/. Corpus data places it at rank #533 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "expressa pavor, surpresa ou susto".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for Jesus, with forms such as "ejsus", "jessu", and "jessus". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Josué", "Jeans", "jejum", 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 Jesus, spelled J-E-S-U-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.