tigre
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,246
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
tigre is aPortuguesenoun. It means: nome comum ao maior dos felídeos do género/gênero Panthera (P. tigris), que inclui o leão e a onça, nativo do continente asiático e de hábitos extremamente territoriais e solitários, corpos musculo... Pronounced /ˈt͡ʃi.ɡɾi/. It ranks #6,246 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with tre and tive.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tigre |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈt͡ʃi.ɡɾi/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #6,246 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for tigre is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈt͡ʃi.ɡɾi/. Corpus data places it at rank #6,246 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.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for tigre, with forms such as "itgre", "tgire", and "tiggre". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "tre", "tive", "tiro", 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 tigre, spelled T-I-G-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1nome comum ao maior dos felídeos do género/gênero Panthera (P. tigris), que inclui o leão e a onça, nativo do continente asiático e de hábitos extremamente territoriais e solitários, corpos musculosos com membros anteriores poderosos, grandes cabeças, caudas longas e garras enormes, pelagem densa e pesada cuja coloração varia entre tons de laranja e marrom com áreas ventrais brancas e listras pretas verticais distintas, cujos padrões são únicos para cada indivíduo (também encontradas na pele), cores essas que se presume sirvam para camuflagem, grande variação de tamanho entre as subespécies sendo as maiores existentes o tigre-siberiano e o tigre-de-bengala, com várias espécies extintas (como o tigre-do-cáspio, que era usado no Coliseu romano)
- 2pessoa cruel e sanguinária
- 3o mesmo que onça-pintada
- 4inseto que ataca plantações de maçã e pera, comendo-lhes as folhas
- 5no jogo do bicho, conjunto das dezenas de 85 a 88
- 6aluno que repete de ano no colégio
- 7tipo de barril que, no Rio de Janeiro, se usava para a coleta de fezes nas casas
- 8o serviçal ou escravo que tinha a função de exercer esse trabalho
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: itgre,tgire,tiggre,tigrre,tirge,ttigre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "tigre"
Frequency rank: #6,246 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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