tigre

//ˈt͡ʃi.ɡɾi// noun

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.

Key facts for tigre
PropertyValue
Headwordtigre
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/ˈt͡ʃi.ɡɾi/
Letters5
Frequency rank#6,246
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of tigre in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    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 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)
  2. 2
    pessoa cruel e sanguinária
  3. 3
    o mesmo que onça-pintada
  4. 4
    inseto que ataca plantações de maçã e pera, comendo-lhes as folhas
  5. 5
    no jogo do bicho, conjunto das dezenas de 85 a 88
  6. 6
    aluno que repete de ano no colégio
  7. 7
    tipo de barril que, no Rio de Janeiro, se usava para a coleta de fezes nas casas
  8. 8
    o serviçal ou escravo que tinha a função de exercer esse trabalho

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: itgre,tgire,tiggre,tigrre,tirge,ttigre

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tigre

Misspelling Variants of "tigre"

itgre5tgire5tiggre6tigrre6tirge5ttigre6
Misspelling Variants of "tigre"

Frequency rank: #6,246 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tigre"?
"tigre" is spelled T-I-G-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is /ˈt͡ʃi.ɡɾi/.
What does "tigre" mean?
As a noun, "tigre" 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...
What words are commonly confused with "tigre"?
"tigre" is commonly confused with "tre", "tive", "tiro". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "tigre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tigre" is /ˈt͡ʃi.ɡɾi/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tigre" come from?
"tigre" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.