tro
/tɾuː/
The verdict
“tro” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #65,179 among 917 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,179
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - fiel
Corpus desk
Index PT-tro · tro · Portuguese
tro · rank #65,179 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,179
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH vergonhosamen…
Nearest frequency peer: vergonhosamente (+13 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.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “tro”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- testicular
testicular
34,839 corpus weight
- tro
tro
34,822 corpus weight
- vergonhosam…
vergonhosamente
34,809 corpus weight
- vor
vor
34,795 corpus weight
- vário
vário
34,792 corpus weight
- êmbolo
êmbolo
34,782 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “tro” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tro |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /tɾuː/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #65,179 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “tro” em português
Rare enough to double-check
tro is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #65,179 among 917 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /tɾuː/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for tro, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is tro, spelled T-R-O.
Definition
- 1fiel
- 2exato, autêntico
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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