tara
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,472
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
tara is aPortuguesenoun. It means: abatimento no peso de mercadorias, atendendo-se ao vaso ou envoltório onde estão acondicionados Often confused with ter and tua.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tara |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #14,472 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for tara is 4 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #14,472 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for tara, with forms such as "atra", "taar", and "tarra". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ter", "tua", "tia", 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 tara, spelled T-A-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1abatimento no peso de mercadorias, atendendo-se ao vaso ou envoltório onde estão acondicionados
- 2substância em pequenos fragmentos, usada em duplas pesagens
- 3desejo sexual
- 4grande desejo por algo
- 5peso próprio do veículo, acrescido dos pesos da carroçaria e equipamento, do combustível, das ferramentas e acessórios, da roda sobressalente, do extintor de incêndio e do fluido de arrefecimento, expresso em quilogramas
- 6peso de uma unidade de transporte intermodal ou veículo sem carga; ao se pesar o total subtrai-se a tara, chegando-se assim ao peso da carga
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: atra,taar,tarra,traa,ttara
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tara
Misspelling Variants of "tara"
Frequency rank: #14,472 in Portuguese
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