sugestão
The verdict
“sugestão” is a regularly-used Portuguese word, ranked #5,894 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #5,894
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 8
- letters
- 11
- tracked misspellings
Dominant Wiktionary sense: o ato de sugerir
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sugestão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /su.ʒɨʃ.ˈtɐ̃w̃/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,894 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sugestão” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for sugestão is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /su.ʒɨʃ.ˈtɐ̃w̃/. Corpus data places it at rank #5,894 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for sugestão, with forms such as "sguestão", "ssugestão", and "suegstão". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 sugestão, spelled S-U-G-E-S-T-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1o ato de sugerir
- 2palpite
- 3opinião
- 4o fato de se controlar a vontade de alguém
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: sguestão,ssugestão,suegstão,sugesstão,sugestoã,sugesttão,sugesãto,sugetsão,suggestão,sugsetão,usgestão
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sugestão — measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "sugestão"
Frequency rank: #5,894 in Portuguese
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Using “sugestão”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is S-U-G-E-S-T-Ã-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /su.ʒɨʃ.ˈtɐ̃w̃/ (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
Nearby Portuguese words
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