ostra
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#37,449
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
ostra is aPortuguesenoun. It means: nome comum a vários moluscos bivalves da família dos ostreídeos, alguns tendo importância econômica por serem comestíveis e de alto valor nutritivo, outras espécies que são cultivadas para a produç... Pronounced /ˈos.tɾɐ/. Often confused with ota and outro.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ostra |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈos.tɾɐ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #37,449 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for ostra is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈos.tɾɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #37,449 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for ostra, with forms such as "osrta", "osstra", and "ostar". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "ota", "outro", "ora", 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 ostra, spelled O-S-T-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1nome comum a vários moluscos bivalves da família dos ostreídeos, alguns tendo importância econômica por serem comestíveis e de alto valor nutritivo, outras espécies que são cultivadas para a produção de pérolas, que vivem fixados a alguma base
- 2pessoa inoportuna, que fica colada em outra; pessoa grudenta
- 3em locais de espetáculos, o nome da cadeira ou poltrona fixa contra a parede
- 4por analogia, catarro espesso
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: osrta,osstra,ostar,ostrra,osttra,otsra,sotra
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "ostra"
Frequency rank: #37,449 in Portuguese
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