tara

noun

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The verdict

“tara” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #14,472. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#14,472
frequency rank, Portuguese
917
“T” headwords
5
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - abatimento no peso de mercadorias, atendendo-se ao vaso ou envoltório onde estão acondicionados

Corpus desk

Index PT-tara · tara · Portuguese

tara · rank #14,472 · 5 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #14,472
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 5 variants
  • BOOK-MID 917
  • PHOTO-FINISH tambor

Nearest frequency peer: tambor (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “tara”

Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho

corpus weight

What this shows “tara” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

tara vs ter
50% similar
tara vs tua
50% similar
tara vs tia
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for tara
PropertyValue
Headwordtara
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters4
Frequency rank#14,472
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequência do íman ortográfico “tara”

A frequência vai do punhado de palavras do dia a dia (esquerda) à cauda longa quase nunca usada (direita).taracai aqui:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

A escala é logarítmica (cada marca ≈ 10× mais rara). Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “tambor” (#14,471), “Teodoro” (#14,477), “tornozelo” (#14,480). Entre 917 lemas com “T”, “tara” fica em #14,472. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 5 spelling variants around tara, anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,472 among 917 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

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

  1. 1
    abatimento no peso de mercadorias, atendendo-se ao vaso ou envoltório onde estão acondicionados
  2. 2
    substância em pequenos fragmentos, usada em duplas pesagens
  3. 3
    desejo sexual
  4. 4
    grande desejo por algo
  5. 5
    peso 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
  6. 6
    peso 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

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how tara appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Amor demais pode virar obsessão ou tara.

This word in other languages

tare(English)tara(Español)tare(Français)Tara(Deutsch)

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.

atra2taar2tarra1traa2ttara1
Edit distance from "tara"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tara"?
"tara" is spelled T-A-R-A.
What does "tara" mean?
As a noun, "tara" means: abatimento no peso de mercadorias, atendendo-se ao vaso ou envoltório onde estão acondicionados
What words are commonly confused with "tara"?
"tara" is commonly confused with "ter", "tua", "tia". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "tara" come from?
"tara" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Yes, PlainSpell is a completely free word reference. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, confusable pairs, homophones, and spelling corrections across 5 languages without any sign-up or subscription.

Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tara", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

viés#14,491been#14,526bife#14,528nono#14,415

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).

guru5 variantstabu5 variantsupon5 variantsmine5 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list