tirar a sorte grande

phrase

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The verdict

“tirar a sorte grande” is uncommon Portuguese (outside the top frequency list), classed as a phrase. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency Portuguese
20
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - ter uma grande sorte

Corpus desk

Index PT-tirar-a-sorte-grande · tirar a sorte grande · Portuguese

tirar a sorte grande · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 20 letters
  • VOW-7 7 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "T" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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.

Key facts for tirar a sorte grande
PropertyValue
Headwordtirar a sorte grande
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechPhrase
Letters20
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “tirar a sorte grande” sits in Portuguese frequency

tirar a sorte grande falls outside the top-100,000 ranked Portuguese words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

tirar a sorte grande is uncommon Portuguese outside the top frequency list, classed as aphrase. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ter uma grande sorte".

No misspelling variants are generated for tirar a sorte grande in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

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. The correct Portuguese form is tirar a sorte grande, spelled T-I-R-A-R- -A- -S-O-R-T-E- -G-R-A-N-D-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    ter uma grande sorte

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how tirar a sorte grande appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Na verdade, a viagem representou muito menos uma aventura do que parece, já que, na vida real, a autora financiou-a com um adiantamento pelo futuro livro -- e que tirou a sorte grande ao se tornar um bestseller lançado em cerca de 30 países, inclusive no Brasil.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tirar a sorte grande"?
"tirar a sorte grande" is spelled T-I-R-A-R- -A- -S-O-R-T-E- -G-R-A-N-D-E.
What does "tirar a sorte grande" mean?
As a phrase, "tirar a sorte grande" means: ter uma grande sorte
What language does "tirar a sorte grande" come from?
"tirar a sorte grande" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list