timbre
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#23,151
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
timbre is aPortuguesenoun. It means: característica sonora que nos permite distinguir se sons de mesma frequência foram produzidos por fontes sonoras conhecidas e que nos permite diferenciá-las Often confused with tigre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | timbre |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #23,151 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for timbre is 6 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #23,151 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for timbre, with forms such as "itmbre", "tibmre", and "timbbre". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "tigre", 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 timbre, spelled T-I-M-B-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1característica sonora que nos permite distinguir se sons de mesma frequência foram produzidos por fontes sonoras conhecidas e que nos permite diferenciá-las
- 2qualidade característica de um som produzido por instrumento ou voz em particular; cor tonal
- 3peça das armas do brasão que fica colocada sobre o virol do elmo
- 4selo
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: itmbre,tibmre,timbbre,timber,timbrre,timmbre,timrbe,tmibre,ttimbre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for timbre
Misspelling Variants of "timbre"
Frequency rank: #23,151 in Portuguese
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