turismo
/tu.ˈɾiʒ.mu/
The verdict
“turismo” is a regularly-used Portuguese word, ranked #2,212 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #2,212
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 7
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - deslocamento voluntário de pessoa por período de tempo igual ou superior a vinte e quatro horas para local diferente da sua residência e do seu trabalho sem este ter por motivação a obtenção de lucro
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | turismo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /tu.ˈɾiʒ.mu/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,212 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “turismo” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for turismo is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /tu.ˈɾiʒ.mu/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,212 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "deslocamento voluntário de pessoa por período de tempo igual ou superior a vinte e quatro horas para local diferente da sua residência e do seu trabalho sem este ter por motivação a obtenção de lucro".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for turismo, with forms such as "truismo", "tturismo", and "tuirsmo". 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 also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "turista", "tourism", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is turismo, spelled T-U-R-I-S-M-O.
Definition
- 1deslocamento voluntário de pessoa por período de tempo igual ou superior a vinte e quatro horas para local diferente da sua residência e do seu trabalho sem este ter por motivação a obtenção de lucro
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: truismo,tturismo,tuirsmo,turimso,turismmo,turisom,turissmo,turrismo,tursimo,utrismo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of turismo - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 “turismo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is T-U-R-I-S-M-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /tu.ˈɾiʒ.mu/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “turista” - see the side-by-side comparison. turismo vs turista
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
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.