tak
The verdict
“tak” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #42,692) as a particle. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #42,692
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sim
Corpus desk
Index PT-tak · tak · Portuguese
tak · rank #42,692 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,692
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH sossegar
Nearest frequency peer: sossegar (-9 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.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “tak”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- Sofa
Sofa
57,321 corpus weight
- solista
solista
57,319 corpus weight
- sossegar
sossegar
57,318 corpus weight
- tak
tak
57,309 corpus weight
- transparecer
transparecer
57,292 corpus weight
- triplicar
triplicar
57,289 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “tak” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tak |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Particle |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #42,692 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “tak”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for tak is neighbouring look-alikes ("te", "to", …), not just typos; it is aparticle. Frequency #42,692 among 917 “T” headwords. Gloss: "sim".
No generated misspelling entries exist for tak in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "te", "to", "tu", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 tak, spelled T-A-K.
Definition
- 1sim
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tak appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Czy ona jest Brazylijką? Tak, ona jest Brazylijką.
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tak", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).