tailor
/ˈteɪlɚ/
The verdict
“tailor” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #88,664 among 917 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,664
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - alfaiate
Corpus desk
Index PT-tailor · tailor · Portuguese
tailor · rank #88,664 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,664
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH Tante
Nearest frequency peer: Tante (+6 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 “tailor”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- shave
shave
11,381 corpus weight
- tailor
tailor
11,337 corpus weight
- Tante
Tante
11,331 corpus weight
- tendencialm…
tendencialmente
11,328 corpus weight
- tipográfico
tipográfico
11,320 corpus weight
- transplantar
transplantar
11,307 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “tailor” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tailor |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈteɪlɚ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #88,664 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “tailor” em português
Rare enough to double-check
tailor is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #88,664 among 917 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈteɪlɚ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "alfaiate".
No generated misspelling entries exist for tailor in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is tailor, spelled T-A-I-L-O-R.
Definition
- 1alfaiate
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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