Tor

/toːɐ̯/ ouvir^(fonte ?)

//toːɐ̯/ ouvir^(fonte ?)/ noun

The verdict

“Tor” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,869) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#19,869
frequency rank, Portuguese
917
“T” headwords
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - portão, porta

Corpus desk

Index PT-tor · Tor · Portuguese

Tor · rank #19,869 · 0 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #19,869
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 917
  • PHOTO-FINISH tombo

Nearest frequency peer: tombo (-2 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.

Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “Tor”

Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo

corpus weight

What this shows As barras situam “Tor” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Tor vs tu
0% similar
Tor vs ty
0% similar
Tor vs tua
0% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Tor
PropertyValue
HeadwordTor
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/toːɐ̯/ ouvir^(fonte ?)
Letters3
Frequency rank#19,869
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “Tor”

A frequência vai do punhado de palavras do dia a dia (esquerda) à cauda longa quase nunca usada (direita).Torcai aqui:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

O eixo é logarítmico: cada tick marca cerca de dez vezes menos frequência. Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “tombo” (#19,867), “trevo” (#19,871), “tutelar” (#19,873). Entre 917 lemas com “T”, “Tor” fica em #19,869. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for Tor is neighbouring look-alikes ("tu", "ty", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /toːɐ̯/ ouvir^(fonte ?). Frequency #19,869 among 917 “T” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Tor, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tu", "ty", "tua", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

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 Tor, spelled T-O-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    portão, porta
  2. 2
    gol

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Tor"?
"Tor" is spelled T-O-R. The IPA pronunciation is /toːɐ̯/ ouvir^(fonte ?).
What does "Tor" mean?
As a noun, "Tor" means: portão, porta
What words are commonly confused with "Tor"?
"Tor" is commonly confused with "tu", "ty", "tua". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Tor"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Tor" is /toːɐ̯/ ouvir^(fonte ?). Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Tor" come from?
"Tor" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Tor", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list