tia

/ˈʧi.ɐ/

//ˈʧi.ɐ// noun

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The verdict

“tia” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #2,401) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#2,401
frequency rank, Portuguese
917
“T” headwords
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - irmã do pai

Corpus desk

Index PT-tia · tia · Portuguese

tia · rank #2,401 · 0 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,401
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 917
  • PHOTO-FINISH sequer

Nearest frequency peer: sequer (-4 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 “tia”

Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo

corpus weight

What this shows As barras situam “tia” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.

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).

tia vs to
33% similar
tia vs tu
33% similar
tia vs ty
33% similar

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

Key facts for tia
PropertyValue
Headwordtia
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/ˈʧi.ɐ/
Letters3
Frequency rank#2,401
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “tia”

Esta escala corre do núcleo do português quotidiano (esquerda) até o rastro de formas raras (direita).tiacai aqui:

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

Os ticks avançam em logaritmo; cada um é da ordem de dez vezes mais raro. Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “sequer” (#2,397), “salário” (#2,396), “revisão” (#2,395). Entre 917 lemas com “T”, “tia” fica em #2,401. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for tia is neighbouring look-alikes ("to", "tu", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈʧi.ɐ/. Frequency #2,401 among 917 “T” headwords. 8 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

tia has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "to", "tu", "ty", 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 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 tia, spelled T-I-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    irmã do pai
  2. 2
    irmã da mãe
  3. 3
    irmã do avô ou da avó
  4. 4
    esposa do tio
  5. 5
    mulher de meia-idade ainda solteira
  6. 6
    forma de tratamento usada ante (e por) moças ou mulher mais velha que não se conhece
  7. 7
    forma de tratamento usada ante professoras (geralmente por alunos nos primeiros anos escolares)
  8. 8
    homossexual de meia-idade

Synonyms

titiaâmitatia-avósolteirona

This word in other languages

aunt(English)tía(Español)tante(Français)Tante(Deutsch)

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 "tia"?
"tia" is spelled T-I-A. The IPA pronunciation is /ˈʧi.ɐ/.
What does "tia" mean?
As a noun, "tia" means: irmã do pai
What words are commonly confused with "tia"?
"tia" is commonly confused with "to", "tu", "ty". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "tia"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tia" is /ˈʧi.ɐ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tia" come from?
"tia" is a Portuguese word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

ora#2,489pau#2,492day#2,512art#2,554

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list