opinião pública

phrase

The verdict

“opinião pública” is uncommon Portuguese (outside the top frequency list), classed as a phrase. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency Portuguese
15
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - expressão da participação popular na criação, controle, execução e crítica das diretrizes de uma sociedade

Corpus desk

Index PT-opiniao-publica · opinião pública · Portuguese

opinião pública · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 15 letters
  • VOW-7 7 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "O" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Key facts for opinião pública
PropertyValue
Headwordopinião pública
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechPhrase
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “opinião pública” em português

opinião públicaestá além das 100.000 formas mais frequentes do português, na cauda de léxico especializado ou pouco usado.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

opinião pública is uncommon Portuguese outside the top frequency list, classed as aphrase. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "expressão da participação popular na criação, controle, execução e crítica das diretrizes de uma sociedade".

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for opinião pública, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 opinião pública, spelled O-P-I-N-I-Ã-O- -P-Ú-B-L-I-C-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    expressão da participação popular na criação, controle, execução e crítica das diretrizes de uma sociedade

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how opinião pública appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. A secretaria é também uma das mais criticadas pela opinião pública, em razão dos atrasos de obras de mobilidade sobre trilhos.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "opinião pública"?
"opinião pública" is spelled O-P-I-N-I-Ã-O- -P-Ú-B-L-I-C-A.
What does "opinião pública" mean?
As a phrase, "opinião pública" means: expressão da participação popular na criação, controle, execução e crítica das diretrizes de uma sociedade
What language does "opinião pública" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list