tigre
/ˈt͡ʃi.ɡɾi/
The verdict
“tigre” is a regularly-used Portuguese word, ranked #6,246 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #6,246
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 5
- letters
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - 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...
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 | 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) |
Where “tigre” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for tigre is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, 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 generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for tigre, with forms such as "itgre", "tgire", and "tiggre". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "tre", "tive", "tiro", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is tigre, spelled T-I-G-R-E.
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
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: itgre,tgire,tiggre,tigrre,tirge,ttigre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tigre - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “tigre”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is T-I-G-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈt͡ʃi.ɡɾi/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “tre” - see the side-by-side comparison. tigre vs tre
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.