trombar
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
- tramp
tramp
7,605 corpus weight
- transístor
transístor
7,601 corpus weight
- trombar
trombar
7,597 corpus weight
- trombonista
trombonista
7,596 corpus weight
- Turbine
Turbine
7,592 corpus weight
- velocino
velocino
7,578 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “trombar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trombar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #92,404 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “trombar” em português
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
- 1chocar(-se), colidir(-se)
- 2emburrar, ficar de tromba
- 3encontrar alguém por acaso (regência verbal com preposição: com)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how trombar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Os carros trombaram no meio da avenida.
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.
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