pergunta
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#657
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
pergunta is aPortuguesenoun. It means: frase cujo objetivo é convidar um ouvinte ou leitor a dar uma explicação, uma informação, ou, em qualquer caso, uma interrogação que demanda, chama ou solicita uma resposta Pronounced /pɨɾ.ˈɡũ.tɐ/. It ranks #657 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with permuta and perguntar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pergunta |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pɨɾ.ˈɡũ.tɐ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #657 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for pergunta is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /pɨɾ.ˈɡũ.tɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #657 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.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 pergunta, with forms such as "eprgunta", "pegrunta", and "perggunta". 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, "permuta", "perguntar", 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 pergunta, spelled P-E-R-G-U-N-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1frase cujo objetivo é convidar um ouvinte ou leitor a dar uma explicação, uma informação, ou, em qualquer caso, uma interrogação que demanda, chama ou solicita uma resposta
- 2questão numa prova
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eprgunta,pegrunta,perggunta,pergnuta,pergunat,pergunnta,perguntta,pergutna,perrgunta,perugnta,ppergunta,pregunta
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pergunta
Misspelling Variants of "pergunta"
Frequency rank: #657 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter P in our Portuguese index: