trombar

verb

The verdict

“trombar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #92,404 among 917 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#92,404
frequency rank, Portuguese
917
“T” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - chocar(-se), colidir(-se)

Corpus desk

Index PT-trombar · trombar · Portuguese

trombar · rank #92,404 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #92,404
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 917
  • PHOTO-FINISH trombonista

Nearest frequency peer: trombonista (+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.

Ranks da cauda longa perto de “trombar”

Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto

corpus weight

What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “trombar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for trombar
PropertyValue
Headwordtrombar
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechVerb
Letters7
Frequency rank#92,404
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “trombar” em português

Esta escala corre do núcleo do português quotidiano (esquerda) até o rastro de formas raras (direita).trombarcai nesta cauda de raridade:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

A escala é logarítmica (cada marca ≈ 10× mais rara). Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “trombonista” (#92,405), “transístor” (#92,400), “Turbine” (#92,409). Entre 917 lemas com “T”, “trombar” fica em #92,404. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

trombar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #92,404 among 917 “T” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for trombar, 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.

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. The correct Portuguese form is trombar, spelled T-R-O-M-B-A-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    chocar(-se), colidir(-se)
  2. 2
    emburrar, ficar de tromba
  3. 3
    encontrar alguém por acaso (regência verbal com preposição: com)

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how trombar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Os carros trombaram no meio da avenida.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "trombar"?
"trombar" is spelled T-R-O-M-B-A-R.
What does "trombar" mean?
As a verb, "trombar" means: chocar(-se), colidir(-se)
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "trombar", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list