tinta

noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,260

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

tinta is aPortuguesenoun. It means: líquido com pigmentação colorida utilizado na escrita e na impressão: It ranks #5,260 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with tira and titã.

Key facts for tinta
PropertyValue
Headwordtinta
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters5
Frequency rank#5,260
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for tinta is 5 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #5,260 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for tinta, with forms such as "itnta", "tinat", and "tinnta". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tira", "titã", "tuna", 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 tinta, spelled T-I-N-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    líquido com pigmentação colorida utilizado na escrita e na impressão:
  2. 2
    líquido colorido utilizado em qualquer tipo de pintura:
  3. 3
    mistura líquida utilizada em tinturaria, para dar cor aos tecidos
  4. 4
    cor, pincelada de cor:
  5. 5
    doença que afeta os castanheiros e outras árvores, na que há uma proliferação do fungo Phytophthora cinnamomi

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: itnta,tinat,tinnta,tintta,titna,tnita,ttinta

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tinta

Misspelling Variants of "tinta"

itnta5tinat5tinnta6tintta6titna5tnita5ttinta6
Misspelling Variants of "tinta"

Frequency rank: #5,260 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tinta"?
"tinta" is spelled T-I-N-T-A.
What does "tinta" mean?
As a noun, "tinta" means: líquido com pigmentação colorida utilizado na escrita e na impressão:
What words are commonly confused with "tinta"?
"tinta" is commonly confused with "tira", "titã", "tuna". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "tinta" come from?
"tinta" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter T in our Portuguese index:

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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.