tirante
The verdict
“tirante” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #86,913 among 917 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,913
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - que tira ou puxa
Corpus desk
Index PT-tirante · tirante · Portuguese
tirante · rank #86,913 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,913
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH Terrorist
Nearest frequency peer: Terrorist (-6 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.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “tirante”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- sementeira
sementeira
13,140 corpus weight
- telheiro
telheiro
13,100 corpus weight
- tentares
tentares
13,096 corpus weight
- territorial…
territorialmente
13,095 corpus weight
- Terrorist
Terrorist
13,094 corpus weight
- tirante
tirante
13,088 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “tirante” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tirante |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #86,913 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “tirante” em português
Rare enough to double-check
tirante is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #86,913 among 917 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for tirante in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is tirante, spelled T-I-R-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1que tira ou puxa
- 2semelhante; que se aproxima de; que se assemelha (a uma cor, uma tonalidade, uma nuança)
- 3excetuado, excluído
- 4diz-se de parede ou muro inclinado, desnivelado
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tirante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tecido de cor tirante a azul.
Eram cores tirantes a vermelho.
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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