Tal
/taːl/
The verdict
“Tal” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #382) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #382
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - vale
Corpus desk
Index PT-tal · Tal · Portuguese
Tal · rank #382 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #382
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH relação
Nearest frequency peer: relação (-1 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 “Tal”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- medo
medo
99,622 corpus weight
- passar
passar
99,621 corpus weight
- relação
relação
99,620 corpus weight
- Tal
Tal
99,619 corpus weight
- ajudar
ajudar
99,618 corpus weight
- amigo
amigo
99,617 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “Tal” 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 | Tal |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /taːl/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #382 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “Tal”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Tal is neighbouring look-alikes ("te", "to", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /taːl/. Frequency #382 among 917 “T” headwords. Gloss: "vale".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Tal, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "te", "to", "tu", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is Tal, spelled T-A-L.
Definition
- 1vale
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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