taravsteráWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: tara is a noun, terá is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“tara” is a noun and “terá” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#14,472
“tara” frequency rank
#747
“terá” frequency rank
15219
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature tara terá
Definition abatimento no peso de mercadorias, atendendo-se ao vaso ou envoltório onde estão acondicionados terceira pessoa do singular do futuro do indicativo do verbo ter

Letter map: tara vs terá

Shared letters muted; letters that set tara and terá apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch
tara
4 ch
terá

Part-of-speech tell for tara / terá

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: tara is anoun and teráaverb. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 15219, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

tara is recorded at frequency rank #14,472, classified as anoun. terá is at rank #747, tagged as averb.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 15219, this pair ranks #56,658 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of tara vs terá

Shared letters: rt. Private to "tara": a. Private to "terá": .

"tara" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "terá" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • taraatra · taar · tarra · traa · ttara

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "tara" and "terá" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "tara" is a noun and "terá" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "tara" or "terá" show up more?
"terá" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #747 in our Portuguese list, against #14,472 for "tara". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "tara" and "terá".

  • Full dictionary entry for "tara" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "terá" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #56,658 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "tara" and "terá" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "tara vs tosa". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #56,658 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list