tribo
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,686
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
tribo is aPortuguesenoun. It means: nos povos primitivos ou da Antiguidade, cada uma das divisões mantidas, em que se conservavam uma origem ou ancestral comum Pronounced /ˈtɾi.bu/. It ranks #4,686 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with tubo and trip.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tribo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈtɾi.bu/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #4,686 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for tribo is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈtɾi.bu/. Corpus data places it at rank #4,686 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for tribo, with forms such as "rtibo", "tirbo", and "trbio". 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, "tubo", "trip", "triz", 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 tribo, spelled T-R-I-B-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1nos povos primitivos ou da Antiguidade, cada uma das divisões mantidas, em que se conservavam uma origem ou ancestral comum
- 2cada um dos doze povos descendentes de Jacó, segundo o relato da Bíblia
- 3as primeiras divisões políticas de Roma (Ramnes, Titii e Luceres); esta designação foi posteriormente ampliada, significando cada uma das 30 (depois 35) cúrias em que se dividiam os plebeus
- 4divisão abaixo da sub-família, e acima do gênero segundo a classificação das espécies proposta pelo biólogo Lineu
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rtibo,tirbo,trbio,tribbo,triob,trribo,ttribo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tribo
Misspelling Variants of "tribo"
Frequency rank: #4,686 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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