testa
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,343
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
testa is aPortuguesenoun. It means: parte do rosto humano acima dos olhos e abaixo dos cabelos Pronounced /ˈtɛʃ.tɐ/. It ranks #7,343 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with titã and teta.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | testa |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈtɛʃ.tɐ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #7,343 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for testa is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈtɛʃ.tɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #7,343 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 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 testa, with forms such as "etsta", "tesat", and "tessta". 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, "titã", "teta", "tosa", 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 testa, spelled T-E-S-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1parte do rosto humano acima dos olhos e abaixo dos cabelos
- 2região anterior frontal da cabeça de animais
- 3frente, dianteira, parte da frente
- 4revestimento externo da casca de sementes
- 5borda da vela latina que se encosta ao mastro
- 6borda vertical em velas redondas
- 7lado perpendicular ao cabo em uma rede de pesca
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: etsta,tesat,tessta,testta,tetsa,tseta,ttesta
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "testa"
Frequency rank: #7,343 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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