quiçá

adv

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#28,739

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

5

tracked variants

Confusables

15

similar word pairs

quiçá is anPortugueseadv. It means: quem sabe; talvez Often confused with quis and quit.

Key facts for quiçá
PropertyValue
Headwordquiçá
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAdv
Letters5
Frequency rank#28,739
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs15
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for quiçá is 5 letters long, classified as anadv. Corpus data places it at rank #28,739 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "quem sabe; talvez".

Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for quiçá, with forms such as "qiuçá", "qquiçá", and "quiáç". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "quis", "quit", "quilo", and more, 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 quiçá, spelled Q-U-I-Ç-Á, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    quem sabe; talvez

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: qiuçá,qquiçá,quiáç,quçiá,uqiçá

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for quiçá

Misspelling Variants of "quiçá"

qiuçá5qquiçá6quiáç5quçiá5uqiçá5
Misspelling Variants of "quiçá"

Frequency rank: #28,739 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "quiçá"?
"quiçá" is spelled Q-U-I-Ç-Á.
What does "quiçá" mean?
As an adv, "quiçá" means: quem sabe; talvez
What words are commonly confused with "quiçá"?
"quiçá" is commonly confused with "quis", "quit", "quilo". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "quiçá" come from?
"quiçá" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter Q in our Portuguese index:

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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.