tack
/tak:/
The verdict
“tack” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #89,603 among 917 “T” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,603
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - obrigado, por favor
Corpus desk
Index PT-tack · tack · Portuguese
tack · rank #89,603 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,603
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH tareia
Nearest frequency peer: tareia (+7 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 “tack”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- simetricame…
simetricamente
10,443 corpus weight
- slay
slay
10,436 corpus weight
- tack
tack
10,398 corpus weight
- tareia
tareia
10,391 corpus weight
- therefore
therefore
10,379 corpus weight
- tiracolo
tiracolo
10,372 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “tack” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tack |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | /tak:/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #89,603 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “tack” em português
Rare enough to double-check
tack is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #89,603 among 917 “T” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed /tak:/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tack, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is tack, spelled T-A-C-K.
Definition
- 1obrigado, por favor
- 2por favor (pedindo algo)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tack appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tack så mycket!
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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