troops
/tɹuːps/
The verdict
“troops” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #69,946 among 917 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,946
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - soldados; homens
Corpus desk
Index PT-troops · troops · Portuguese
troops · rank #69,946 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,946
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH tragicomédia
Nearest frequency peer: tragicomédia (-6 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 “troops”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- taki
taki
30,077 corpus weight
- teleconferê…
teleconferência
30,075 corpus weight
- tragicomédia
tragicomédia
30,061 corpus weight
- troops
troops
30,055 corpus weight
- ventríloquo
ventríloquo
30,036 corpus weight
- virologia
virologia
30,029 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “troops” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | troops |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /tɹuːps/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #69,946 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “troops” em português
Rare enough to double-check
troops is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #69,946 among 917 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /tɹuːps/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "soldados; homens".
No generated misspelling entries exist for troops in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is troops, spelled T-R-O-O-P-S.
Definition
- 1soldados; homens
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how troops appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
There were 10,000 troops in Iraq.
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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