tigre
/ˈt͡ʃi.ɡɾi/
The verdict
“tigre” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #6,246. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,246
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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...
Corpus desk
Index PT-tigre · tigre · Portuguese
tigre · rank #6,246 · 6 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,246
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH supervisão
Nearest frequency peer: supervisão (-2 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.
Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “tigre”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- sobrenome
sobrenome
93,761 corpus weight
- solteiro
solteiro
93,760 corpus weight
- solto
solto
93,759 corpus weight
- supervisão
supervisão
93,757 corpus weight
- tigre
tigre
93,755 corpus weight
- visualizar
visualizar
93,749 corpus weight
What this shows “tigre” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
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) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “tigre”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around tigre (IPA /ˈt͡ʃi.ɡɾi/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,246 among 917 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 8 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
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
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tigre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vírus mata mais de 70 tigres em zoológico na Tailândia.
... E às vezes sobre o cume de um rochedo / A corça e o tigre — náufragos do medo — / Vão trêmulos se unir!
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).