talk

verb

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#9,582

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

6

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

talk is aPortugueseverb. It means: conversar It ranks #9,582 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with tão and tam.

Key facts for talk
PropertyValue
Headwordtalk
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechVerb
Letters4
Frequency rank#9,582
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of talk in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for talk is 4 letters long, classified as averb. Corpus data places it at rank #9,582 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "conversar".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for talk, with forms such as "atlk", "takl", and "talkk". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tão", "tam", "tap", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is talk, spelled T-A-L-K, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    conversar

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: atlk,takl,talkk,tallk,tlak,ttalk

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for talk

Misspelling Variants of "talk"

atlk4takl4talkk5tallk5tlak4ttalk5
Misspelling Variants of "talk"

Frequency rank: #9,582 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "talk"?
"talk" is spelled T-A-L-K.
What does "talk" mean?
As a verb, "talk" means: conversar
What words are commonly confused with "talk"?
"talk" is commonly confused with "tão", "tam", "tap". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "talk" come from?
"talk" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter T in our Portuguese index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.