taciturno
/tɐ.si.ˈtuɾ.nu/
The verdict
“taciturno” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #78,352 among 917 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,352
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - de poucas palavras
Corpus desk
Index PT-taciturno · taciturno · Portuguese
taciturno · rank #78,352 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,352
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH swamp
Nearest frequency peer: swamp (-2 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 “taciturno”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- sobrevoo
sobrevoo
21,677 corpus weight
- suricato
suricato
21,656 corpus weight
- swamp
swamp
21,651 corpus weight
- taciturno
taciturno
21,649 corpus weight
- technique
technique
21,643 corpus weight
- tinhoso
tinhoso
21,634 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “taciturno” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | taciturno |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /tɐ.si.ˈtuɾ.nu/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #78,352 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “taciturno” em português
Rare enough to double-check
taciturno is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #78,352 among 917 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /tɐ.si.ˈtuɾ.nu/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for taciturno in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is taciturno, spelled T-A-C-I-T-U-R-N-O.
Definition
- 1de poucas palavras
- 2tristonho
- 3soturno (lugar)
- 4membro de antiga seita de anabatistas que impunha a obrigação do silêncio
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how taciturno appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sobre a pedagogia
This word in other languages
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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