trás vs true, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“trás” is an adverb and “true” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#860
“trás” frequency rank: #9,418
“true” frequency rank: 10278
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	trás	true
Definition	depois de	verdadeiro, verídico

Letter map: trás vs true

Shared letters muted; letters that set trás and true apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch

trás

4 ch

true

Grammar separator: trás vs true

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: trás is anadverb and trueanadjective. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 10278, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

trás is recorded at frequency rank #860, classified as anadv. true is at rank #9,418, tagged as anadj, pronounced /truː/.

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 10278, this pair ranks #62,877 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of trás vs true

Shared letters: rt. Private to "trás": sá. Private to "true": eu.

"trás" · 4 letters · shape CCVC · "true" · 4 letters · shape CCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

true ← rtue · treu · trrue · ttrue · ture

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "trás" for "true" ever safe?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "trás" is an adverb and "true" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Frequency check: "trás" vs "true" - which ranks higher?

"trás" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #860 in our Portuguese list, against #9,418 for "true". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

You've compared "trás" and "true". Here's where to go from here.

Full dictionary entry for "trás" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "true" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #62,877 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"trás" and "true" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "tique vs true". 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 #62,877 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.