chá
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,711
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
chá is aPortuguesenoun. It means: planta da família das Teáceas, originária do Extremo Oriente, cultivada por causa de suas folhas que contêm um alcalóide, a teína (cafeína do chá) Pronounced /ˈʃa/. It ranks #2,711 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with co and cu.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chá |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈʃa/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #2,711 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for chá is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈʃa/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,711 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for chá in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "co", "cu", "ci", 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 chá, spelled C-H-Á, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1planta da família das Teáceas, originária do Extremo Oriente, cultivada por causa de suas folhas que contêm um alcalóide, a teína (cafeína do chá)
- 2as folhas secas dessa planta
- 3a preparação de infusão das folhas de chá
- 4infusão de diversas plantas, como por exemplo chá de erva cidreira, de erva doce, de camomila, de boldo, etc
- 5ato ou seu resultado que faz com que se tenha uma dose grande e extenuante
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #2,711 in Portuguese
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