trovador

//tɾu.vɐ.ˈdoɾ// noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#59,463

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

trovador is aPortuguesenoun. It means: em Portugal, poeta lírico ambulante, do final da Idade Média, que cantava seus próprios versos nas feiras de vila em vila (tradição originada na Provença) Pronounced /tɾu.vɐ.ˈdoɾ/.

Key facts for trovador
PropertyValue
Headwordtrovador
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/tɾu.vɐ.ˈdoɾ/
Letters8
Frequency rank#59,463
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of trovador in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for trovador is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /tɾu.vɐ.ˈdoɾ/. Corpus data places it at rank #59,463 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for trovador in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is trovador, spelled T-R-O-V-A-D-O-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    em Portugal, poeta lírico ambulante, do final da Idade Média, que cantava seus próprios versos nas feiras de vila em vila (tradição originada na Provença)
  2. 2
    nome dados aos poetas do sul da França que cantavam versos em língua d'oc, por oposição a troveiro
  3. 3
    designação comum a qualquer poeta que canta seus versos
  4. 4
    o que faz ou canta trovas

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This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #59,463 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "trovador"?
"trovador" is spelled T-R-O-V-A-D-O-R. The IPA pronunciation is /tɾu.vɐ.ˈdoɾ/.
What does "trovador" mean?
As a noun, "trovador" means: em Portugal, poeta lírico ambulante, do final da Idade Média, que cantava seus próprios versos nas feiras de vila em vila (tradição originada na Provença)
How do you pronounce "trovador"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "trovador" is /tɾu.vɐ.ˈdoɾ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "trovador" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.