tirar
/t͡ʃiˈɾa(ʁ)/ [t͡ʃiˈɾa(h)]
The verdict
“tirar” is in the everyday core of Portuguese, ranked #661 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a verb.
- #661
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 5
- letters
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - pôr para fora; retirar facilmente, em geral com as mãos
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 | tirar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /t͡ʃiˈɾa(ʁ)/ [t͡ʃiˈɾa(h)] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #661 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tirar” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for tirar is 5 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /t͡ʃiˈɾa(ʁ)/ [t͡ʃiˈɾa(h)]. Corpus data places it at rank #661 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language. Wiktionary records 14 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for tirar, with forms such as "itrar", "tiarr", and "tirarr". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tra", "trás", "tiro", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is tirar, spelled T-I-R-A-R.
Definition
- 1pôr para fora; retirar facilmente, em geral com as mãos
- 2subtrair
- 3fazer
- 4imprimir
- 5colher, obter como resultado
- 6roubar, furtar
- 7herdar características
- 8disputar
- 9deduzir, concluir (regência verbal com preposição: por; de)
- 10puxar a, parecer-se com, fazer lembrar (regência verbal com preposição: a)
- 11desviar-se, sair
- 12imprimir
- 13abortar uma gestação
- 14permitir-se ser submetida por escolha livre a processo de abortamento de uma gestação própria
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: itrar,tiarr,tirarr,tirra,tirrar,triar,ttirar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tirar - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 “tirar”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is T-I-R-A-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /t͡ʃiˈɾa(ʁ)/ [t͡ʃiˈɾa(h)] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “tra” - see the side-by-side comparison. tirar vs tra
- 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.