tratar
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,728
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
tratar is aPortugueseverb. It means: ocupar-se de; dedicar cuidados a; dar tratamento a; ter relações com; discorrer acerca de; ocupar-se de; manusear; alimentar; executar; combinar; obsequiar; estabelecer; pactuar; combinar; cultivar Pronounced /tɾɐ.ˈtaɾ/. It ranks #1,728 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with trato and treta.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tratar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /tɾɐ.ˈtaɾ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,728 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for tratar is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /tɾɐ.ˈtaɾ/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,728 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for tratar, with forms such as "rtatar", "tartar", and "traatr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "trato", "treta", "truta", 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 tratar, spelled T-R-A-T-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ocupar-se de; dedicar cuidados a; dar tratamento a; ter relações com; discorrer acerca de; ocupar-se de; manusear; alimentar; executar; combinar; obsequiar; estabelecer; pactuar; combinar; cultivar
- 2aplicar curativos; fazer preparativos; formar planos; cuidar; negociar; contratar; discorrer; considerar
- 3receber os cuidados de alguém; alimentar-se bem; curar-se
- 4ter-se dirigido por um termo de tratamento (regência verbal com preposição: por)
- 5ter por assunto, ter por tema, ter por objeto, discorrer sobre, versar sobre (regência verbal com preposição: de)
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rtatar,tartar,traatr,tratarr,tratra,trattar,trratar,trtaar,ttratar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tratar
Misspelling Variants of "tratar"
Frequency rank: #1,728 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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