travessão
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#35,814
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
travessão is aPortuguesenoun. It means: sinal que usualmente indica a mudança de interlocutores num diálogo, constituído de traço horizontal maior que o hífen Pronounced /tɾa.veˈsɐ̃w̃/. Often confused with travesso and travessia.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | travessão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /tɾa.veˈsɐ̃w̃/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #35,814 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for travessão is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /tɾa.veˈsɐ̃w̃/. Corpus data places it at rank #35,814 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for travessão, with forms such as "rtavessão", "tarvessão", and "traevssão". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "travesso", "travessia", 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 travessão, spelled T-R-A-V-E-S-S-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1sinal que usualmente indica a mudança de interlocutores num diálogo, constituído de traço horizontal maior que o hífen
- 2sinal que, quando colocado sob letras ou palavras, confere destaque ao texto
- 3em modalidades desportivas como o futebol, futsal, voleibol e handebol, a parte superior do gol
- 4haste horizontal que, numa balança, segura os pratos
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rtavessão,tarvessão,traevssão,travessoã,travesão,travesãso,travsesão,travvessão,trravessão,trvaessão,ttravessão
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "travessão"
Frequency rank: #35,814 in Portuguese
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