tia
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,401
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
tia is aPortuguesenoun. It means: irmã do pai Pronounced /ˈʧi.ɐ/. It ranks #2,401 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with to and tu.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tia |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈʧi.ɐ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #2,401 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for tia is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈʧi.ɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,401 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for tia in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 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 tia, spelled T-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1irmã do pai
- 2irmã da mãe
- 3irmã do avô ou da avó
- 4esposa do tio
- 5mulher de meia-idade ainda solteira
- 6forma de tratamento usada ante (e por) moças ou mulher mais velha que não se conhece
- 7forma de tratamento usada ante professoras (geralmente por alunos nos primeiros anos escolares)
- 8homossexual de meia-idade
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Frequency rank: #2,401 in Portuguese
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