Tor
/toːɐ̯/ ouvir^(fonte ?)
The verdict
“Tor” is a moderately-common Portuguese word, ranked #19,869 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #19,869
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - portão, porta
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 | Tor |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /toːɐ̯/ ouvir^(fonte ?) |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #19,869 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Tor” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for Tor is 3 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /toːɐ̯/ ouvir^(fonte ?). Corpus data places it at rank #19,869 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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
- 1portão, porta
- 2gol
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 “Tor”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is T-O-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /toːɐ̯/ ouvir^(fonte ?) (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “tu” - see the side-by-side comparison. Tor vs tu
- 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.