trovador
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/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trovador |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /tɾu.vɐ.ˈdoɾ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #59,463 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1em Portugal, poeta lírico ambulante, do final da Idade Média, que cantava seus próprios versos nas feiras de vila em vila (tradição originada na Provença)
- 2nome dados aos poetas do sul da França que cantavam versos em língua d'oc, por oposição a troveiro
- 3designação comum a qualquer poeta que canta seus versos
- 4o que faz ou canta trovas
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #59,463 in Portuguese
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