opinião pública
The verdict
“opinião pública” is outside the top-ranked Portuguese vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - expressão da participação popular na criação, controle, execução e crítica das diretrizes de uma sociedade
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | opinião pública |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “opinião pública” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for opinião pública is 15 letters long, classified as a phrase. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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
- 1expressão da participação popular na criação, controle, execução e crítica das diretrizes de uma sociedade
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.
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Using “opinião pública”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is O-P-I-N-I-Ã-O- -P-Ú-B-L-I-C-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.