toca
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,545
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
toca is aPortuguesenoun. It means: buraco, natural ou aberto por alguns animais (roedores, aves, desdentados, etc.), usado como abrigo em árvores, solo, pedras ou outros ambientes (como a casa de troncos do castor) Pronounced /ˈtɔ.kɐ/. It ranks #2,545 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with tua and tom.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | toca |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈtɔ.kɐ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #2,545 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for toca is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈtɔ.kɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,545 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for toca, with forms such as "otca", "tcoa", and "toac". 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, "tua", "tom", "Tor", 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 toca, spelled T-O-C-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1buraco, natural ou aberto por alguns animais (roedores, aves, desdentados, etc.), usado como abrigo em árvores, solo, pedras ou outros ambientes (como a casa de troncos do castor)
- 2local usado para se esconder ou proteger
- 3casa reles, miserável
- 4parte da planta que a fixa ao solo e dele retira nutrientes
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: otca,tcoa,toac,tocca,ttoca
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for toca
Misspelling Variants of "toca"
Frequency rank: #2,545 in Portuguese
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