trial
The verdict
“trial” is a moderately-common Portuguese word, ranked #23,851 in Portuguese word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #23,851
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 5
- letters
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - que é destinada a permitir uma avaliação sem compromisso prévia a um eventual posterior licenciamento
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 | trial |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #23,851 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “trial” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for trial is 5 letters long, classified as an adjective. Corpus data places it at rank #23,851 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "que é destinada a permitir uma avaliação sem compromisso prévia a um eventual posterior licenciamento".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for trial, with forms such as "rtial", "tiral", and "trail". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "trip", "triz", "tribo", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 trial, spelled T-R-I-A-L.
Definition
- 1que é destinada a permitir uma avaliação sem compromisso prévia a um eventual posterior licenciamento
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rtial,tiral,trail,triall,trila,trrial,ttrial
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of trial - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “trial”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is T-R-I-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “trip” - see the side-by-side comparison. trial vs trip
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.