tara
The verdict
“tara” is a moderately-common Portuguese word, ranked #14,472 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #14,472
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 4
- letters
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - abatimento no peso de mercadorias, atendendo-se ao vaso ou envoltório onde estão acondicionados
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 | tara |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #14,472 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tara” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for tara is 4 letters long, classified as a noun. 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 generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for tara, with forms such as "atra", "taar", and "tarra". 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 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 borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is tara, spelled T-A-R-A.
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
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tara - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 “tara”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is T-A-R-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “ter” - see the side-by-side comparison. tara vs ter
- 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.