três

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for três is 4 letters long, classified as anum, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈtɾeʃ/. Corpus data places it at rank #167 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "número equivalente a dois mais um; cardinalidade de um conjunto que contenha dois elementos e outro elemento distinto; representado pelo símbolo 3 (algarismos arábicos) ou III (algarismos romanos)".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for três, with forms such as "rtês", "trrês", and "trsê". 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, "tri", "try", "true", 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 três, spelled T-R-Ê-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.