tentativa
/tẽ.tɐ.ˈti.vɐ/
The verdict
“tentativa” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #1,659. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,659
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,850
- “T” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - esforço feito para obter alguma coisa
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tentativa |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /tẽ.tɐ.ˈti.vɐ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #1,659 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tentativa” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around tentativa (IPA /tẽ.tɐ.ˈti.vɐ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,659 among 1,850 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for tentativa, with forms such as "etntativa", "tenattiva", and "tenntativa". 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. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is tentativa, spelled T-E-N-T-A-T-I-V-A.
Definition
- 1esforço feito para obter alguma coisa
- 2ataque, assalto
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etntativa
- tenattiva
- tenntativa
- tentaitva
- tentatiav
- tentativva
- tentattiva
- tentatvia
- tenttaiva
- tenttativa
- tetnativa
- tnetativa
- ttentativa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tentativa - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 “tentativa”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is T-E-N-T-A-T-I-V-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /tẽ.tɐ.ˈti.vɐ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.