tra
/tʀa/
The verdict
“tra” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #27,694) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #27,694
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - coisa
Corpus desk
Index PT-tra · tra · Portuguese
tra · rank #27,694 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,694
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH tintim
Nearest frequency peer: tintim (-3 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 “tra”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- sonegação
sonegação
72,325 corpus weight
- subsequente…
subsequentemente
72,320 corpus weight
- tintim
tintim
72,310 corpus weight
- tra
tra
72,307 corpus weight
- trança
trança
72,303 corpus weight
- trouble
trouble
72,301 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “tra” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.
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 | tra |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /tʀa/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #27,694 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “tra”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for tra is neighbouring look-alikes ("tu", "ty", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /tʀa/. Frequency #27,694 among 917 “T” headwords. Gloss: "coisa".
tra has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tu", "ty", "tua", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is tra, spelled T-R-A.
Definition
- 1coisa
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).