tribunal
/tɾi.bu.ˈnaɫ/
The verdict
“tribunal” is in the everyday core of Portuguese, ranked #814 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #814
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 8
- letters
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - local onde são debatidas e julgadas questões judiciais
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 | tribunal |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /tɾi.bu.ˈnaɫ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #814 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tribunal” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for tribunal is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /tɾi.bu.ˈnaɫ/. Corpus data places it at rank #814 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language. Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for tribunal, with forms such as "rtibunal", "tirbunal", and "trbiunal". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "tribuno", "trienal", "tribal", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 tribunal, spelled T-R-I-B-U-N-A-L.
Definition
- 1local onde são debatidas e julgadas questões judiciais
- 2jurisdição de uma entidade moral que é tida como juiz
- 3jurisdição de um ou de vários magistrados que julgam simultaneamente
- 4na Roma antiga, era o local destinado ao julgamento e à administração da justiça; estrado onde se sentavam os juízes
- 5lugar onde se realizam audiências judiciais e se fazem os julgamentos
- 6conjunto dos magistrados ou pessoas que administram a justiça
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rtibunal,tirbunal,trbiunal,tribbunal,tribnual,tribuanl,tribunall,tribunla,tribunnal,triubnal,trribunal,ttribunal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tribunal - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 “tribunal”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is T-R-I-B-U-N-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /tɾi.bu.ˈnaɫ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “tribuno” - see the side-by-side comparison. tribunal vs tribuno
- 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.