pesquisa

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for pesquisa is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /pɨʃ.ˈki.zɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #774 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "o processo de reunir ou investigar informações sobre um determinado assunto com a intenção de compreender tal assunto".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for pesquisa, with forms such as "epsquisa", "peqsuisa", and "pesqiusa". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "pesquisar", 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 pesquisa, spelled P-E-S-Q-U-I-S-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.