tri
/ˈtɾi/
The verdict
“tri” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,982) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,982
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - muito bom, legal; trilegal
Corpus desk
Index PT-tri · tri · Portuguese
tri · rank #14,982 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,982
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH tre
Nearest frequency peer: tre (-1 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.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “tri”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- tenhas
tenhas
85,028 corpus weight
- tinto
tinto
85,024 corpus weight
- tre
tre
85,020 corpus weight
- tri
tri
85,019 corpus weight
- turn
turn
85,016 corpus weight
- vacinação
vacinação
85,011 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “tri” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tri |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈtɾi/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #14,982 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “tri”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for tri is neighbouring look-alikes ("tu", "ty", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced /ˈtɾi/. Frequency #14,982 among 917 “T” headwords. Gloss: "muito bom, legal; trilegal".
tri has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tu", "ty", "tua", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is tri, spelled T-R-I.
Definition
- 1muito bom, legal; trilegal
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tri appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).