quórum
/ˈkwɔ.ɾũ/
The verdict
“quórum” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #31,116. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,116
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 274
- “Q” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - número mínimo de pessoas, por meio legal, necessário para abrir sessões, votações, etc, em assembleias
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quórum |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkwɔ.ɾũ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #31,116 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “quórum” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around quórum (IPA /ˈkwɔ.ɾũ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,116 among 274 “Q” headwords. Dominant gloss: "número mínimo de pessoas, por meio legal, necessário para abrir sessões, votações, etc, em assembleias".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for quórum, with forms such as "qquórum", "quróum", and "quórmu". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is quórum, spelled Q-U-Ó-R-U-M.
Definition
- 1número mínimo de pessoas, por meio legal, necessário para abrir sessões, votações, etc, em assembleias
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: qquórum,quróum,quórmu,quórrum,quórumm,quóurm,qóurum,uqórum
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of quórum - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “quórum”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is Q-U-Ó-R-U-M - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈkwɔ.ɾũ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
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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.