trabalho
/tɾɐ.ˈba.ʎu/
The verdict
“trabalho” is in the everyday core of Portuguese, ranked #131 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #131
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 8
- letters
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - atividade física ou intelectual
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 | trabalho |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /tɾɐ.ˈba.ʎu/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #131 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “trabalho” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for trabalho is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /tɾɐ.ˈba.ʎu/. Corpus data places it at rank #131 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language. Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for trabalho, with forms such as "rtabalho", "tarbalho", and "traablho". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "trapalhão", "trabalhoso", "trabalhar", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 trabalho, spelled T-R-A-B-A-L-H-O.
Definition
- 1atividade física ou intelectual
- 2profissão, ofício
- 3exercício de uma profissão
- 4obra confeccionada por alguém
- 5o cuidado empregado na confecção de algo
- 6local onde se trabalha
- 7um esforço muito grande
- 8ritual mágico-religioso
- 9grandeza escalar, medida em joules, que mensura a quantidade de energia transferida em virtude da existência simultânea de uma força e de movimento na direção desta; corresponde ao produto escalar de uma força (suposta constante) pelo vetor deslocamento
- 10quantidade de energia transferida entre um sistema e sua vizinhança em virtude do movimento da fronteira que os separa, e não através dessa fronteira (calor); o trabalho é, nesse caso, igualmente determinado pelo produto entre a pressão na fronteira (suposta constante) e a variação do volume do sistema; se o volume do sistema aumenta, o trabalho é positivo; se diminui, negativo
- 11em acordo com a primeira lei da termodinâmica (ΔU=Q- Tau ), uma das formas ( Tau ) de se alterar a energia interna (U) de um sistema; a outra forma dá-se via calor (Q)
- 12base da produção econômica; fator de produção obtido do trabalho humano, em contraponto ao capital
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rtabalho,tarbalho,traablho,trabahlo,trabalhho,traballho,trabaloh,trabbalho,trablaho,trbaalho,trrabalho,ttrabalho
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of trabalho - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 “trabalho”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is T-R-A-B-A-L-H-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /tɾɐ.ˈba.ʎu/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “trapalhão” - see the side-by-side comparison. trabalho vs trapalhão
- 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.