tração
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,629
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
tração is aPortuguesenoun. It means: força aplicada sobre um corpo numa direção perpendicular à sua superfície de corte e num sentido tal que provoque a sua rotura Pronounced /tɾa.ˈsɐ̃w̃/. Often confused with trata and troca.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tração |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /tɾa.ˈsɐ̃w̃/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #13,629 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for tração is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /tɾa.ˈsɐ̃w̃/. Corpus data places it at rank #13,629 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.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for tração, with forms such as "rtação", "tarção", and "traãço". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "trata", "troca", "trato", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is tração, spelled T-R-A-Ç-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1força aplicada sobre um corpo numa direção perpendicular à sua superfície de corte e num sentido tal que provoque a sua rotura
- 2força necessária para fazer deslocar um veículo
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rtação,tarção,traãço,traçoã,trração,trçaão,ttração
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tração
Misspelling Variants of "tração"
Frequency rank: #13,629 in Portuguese
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