travado

adj

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The verdict

“travado” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #19,579. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#19,579
frequency rank, Portuguese
917
“T” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
9
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - que está impossibilitado de se mover

Corpus desk

Index PT-travado · travado · Portuguese

travado · rank #19,579 · 10 variants · 9 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #19,579
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 917
  • PHOTO-FINISH trick

Nearest frequency peer: trick (+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.

Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “travado”

Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho

corpus weight

What this shows “travado” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

travado vs travar
71% similar
travado vs trovão
57% similar
travado vs travão
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for travado
PropertyValue
Headwordtravado
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAdjective
Letters7
Frequency rank#19,579
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequência do íman ortográfico “travado”

Da esquerda para a direita: o pouco que carrega a fala diária, depois a cauda longa quase invisível.travadocai aqui:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

A escala é logarítmica (cada marca ≈ 10× mais rara). Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “trick” (#19,582), “trote” (#19,583), “térmico” (#19,585). Entre 917 lemas com “T”, “travado” fica em #19,579. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around travado, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #19,579 among 917 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for travado, with forms such as "rtavado", "tarvado", and "traavdo". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "travar", "trovão", "travão", 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 travado, spelled T-R-A-V-A-D-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    que está impossibilitado de se mover
  2. 2
    que está com falha no funcionamento (equipamentos eletrônicos)
  3. 3
    que parou o andamento, não pôde continuar
  4. 4
    que teve ativado a trava; fechado, trancado

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how travado appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Depois do acidente, ficou todo travado.
  2. videogame travado

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • rtavado
  • tarvado
  • traavdo
  • travaddo
  • travaod
  • travdao
  • travvado
  • trravado
  • trvaado
  • ttravado

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of travado - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

rtavado2tarvado2traavdo2travaddo1travaod2travdao2travvado1trravado1
Edit distance from "travado"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "travado"?
"travado" is spelled T-R-A-V-A-D-O.
What does "travado" mean?
As an adjective, "travado" means: que está impossibilitado de se mover
What words are commonly confused with "travado"?
"travado" is commonly confused with "travar", "trovão", "travão". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "travado" come from?
"travado" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Yes, PlainSpell is a completely free word reference. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, confusable pairs, homophones, and spelling corrections across 5 languages without any sign-up or subscription.

Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "travado", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

térmico#19,585rainbow#19,540pântano#19,536Arménia#19,628

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

burguês10 variantscaboclo10 variantscárcere10 variantsembargo10 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list