TRC
The verdict
“TRC” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #76,781 among 917 “T” headwords), classed as an abbreviation. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,781
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - tubo de raios catódicos
Corpus desk
Index PT-trc · TRC · Portuguese
TRC · rank #76,781 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,781
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH troglodita
Nearest frequency peer: troglodita (+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.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “TRC”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- teal
teal
23,249 corpus weight
- tetracampeo…
tetracampeonato
23,242 corpus weight
- thesis
thesis
23,239 corpus weight
- TRC
TRC
23,220 corpus weight
- troglodita
troglodita
23,217 corpus weight
- verticalida…
verticalidade
23,190 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “TRC” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | TRC |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #76,781 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “TRC” em português
Rare enough to double-check
TRC is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #76,781 among 917 “T” headwords, classed as anabbreviation. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "tubo de raios catódicos".
Zero misspellings are on record for TRC in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is TRC, spelled T-R-C.
Definition
- 1tubo de raios catódicos
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how TRC appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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This word in other languages
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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