tombar
/tõ.ˈbaɾ/
The verdict
“tombar” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #44,619. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,619
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - deitar ao chão (transitivo)
Corpus desk
Index PT-tombar · tombar · Portuguese
tombar · rank #44,619 · 9 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,619
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH titio
Nearest frequency peer: titio (-1 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.
Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “tombar”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- talão
talão
55,389 corpus weight
- terminação
terminação
55,387 corpus weight
- titio
titio
55,383 corpus weight
- tombar
tombar
55,382 corpus weight
- tourism
tourism
55,380 corpus weight
- transpiração
transpiração
55,378 corpus weight
What this shows “tombar” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
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 | tombar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /tõ.ˈbaɾ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #44,619 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “tombar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around tombar (IPA /tõ.ˈbaɾ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #44,619 among 917 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for tombar, with forms such as "otmbar", "tmobar", and "tobmar". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "tumba", "tombo", "topar", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is tombar, spelled T-O-M-B-A-R.
Definition
- 1deitar ao chão (transitivo)
- 2fazer cair (transitivo)
- 3derrubar (transitivo)
- 4registrar determinado bem como patrimônio histórico, para restringir alterações em sua fachada (transitivo)
- 5cair (intransitivo)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tombar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A mansão da esquina foi tombada pelo IPHAN;
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- otmbar
- tmobar
- tobmar
- tomabr
- tombarr
- tombbar
- tombra
- tommbar
- ttombar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tombar - 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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tombar", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).