tam
The verdict
“tam” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #12,345) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #12,345
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - lá, aí, ali, acolá
Corpus desk
Index PT-tam · tam · Portuguese
tam · rank #12,345 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,345
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH source
Nearest frequency peer: source (-2 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “tam”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- severa
severa
87,663 corpus weight
- silicone
silicone
87,662 corpus weight
- source
source
87,658 corpus weight
- tam
tam
87,656 corpus weight
- temor
temor
87,652 corpus weight
- teórico
teórico
87,649 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “tam” sits against the nearest ranked Portuguese headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | tam |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #12,345 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Onde “tam” fica na frequência do português
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for tam is neighbouring look-alikes ("te", "to", …), not just typos; it is anadverb. Frequency #12,345 among 917 “T” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for tam in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. 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.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is tam, spelled T-A-M.
Definition
- 1lá, aí, ali, acolá
- 2para ali, para aí
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tam appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
tam nahoře/naproti
"Nechoď tam!"
Antonyms
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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- "tam" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "te". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #12,345 among Portuguese headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.