tha
/ha/
The verdict
“tha” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #38,931) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #38,931
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - presente do verbo bi (ser, estar); sou/estou, é/está, somos/estamos, são/estão
Corpus desk
Index PT-tha · tha · Portuguese
tha · rank #38,931 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,931
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH tralha
Nearest frequency peer: tralha (+5 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.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “tha”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- servil
servil
61,090 corpus weight
- skol
skol
61,086 corpus weight
- tha
tha
61,070 corpus weight
- tralha
tralha
61,065 corpus weight
- vendaval
vendaval
61,057 corpus weight
- ventosa
ventosa
61,055 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “tha” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.
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 | tha |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ha/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #38,931 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “tha”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for tha is neighbouring look-alikes ("to", "tu", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced /ha/. Frequency #38,931 among 917 “T” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
tha has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "to", "tu", "ti", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 tha, spelled T-H-A.
Definition
- 1presente do verbo bi (ser, estar); sou/estou, é/está, somos/estamos, são/estão
- 2sim (usado como resposta afirmativa à perguntas com o verbo bheil, já que o gaélico escocês não tem uma palavra para expressar sim)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tha appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tha mi sgìth
Tha thu sgìth
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).