percurso

//pɨɾ.ˈkuɾ.su// noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,418

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

percurso is aPortuguesenoun. It means: espaço percorrido Pronounced /pɨɾ.ˈkuɾ.su/. It ranks #4,418 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with perverso and percussão.

Key facts for percurso
PropertyValue
Headwordpercurso
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/pɨɾ.ˈkuɾ.su/
Letters8
Frequency rank#4,418
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for percurso is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /pɨɾ.ˈkuɾ.su/. Corpus data places it at rank #4,418 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for percurso, with forms such as "eprcurso", "pecrurso", and "perccurso". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "perverso", "percussão", 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 percurso, spelled P-E-R-C-U-R-S-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    espaço percorrido
  2. 2
    caminho

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: eprcurso,pecrurso,perccurso,percruso,percuros,percurrso,percursso,percusro,perrcurso,perucrso,ppercurso,precurso

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for percurso

Misspelling Variants of "percurso"

eprcurso8pecrurso8perccurso9percruso8percuros8percurrso9percursso9percusro8
Misspelling Variants of "percurso"

Frequency rank: #4,418 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "percurso"?
"percurso" is spelled P-E-R-C-U-R-S-O. The IPA pronunciation is /pɨɾ.ˈkuɾ.su/.
What does "percurso" mean?
As a noun, "percurso" means: espaço percorrido
What words are commonly confused with "percurso"?
"percurso" is commonly confused with "perverso", "percussão". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "percurso"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "percurso" is /pɨɾ.ˈkuɾ.su/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "percurso" come from?
"percurso" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.