tama
/ˈta.ma/
The verdict
“tama” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #61,252 among 917 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,252
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - lança
Corpus desk
Index PT-tama · tama · Portuguese
tama · rank #61,252 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,252
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH torrencial
Nearest frequency peer: torrencial (+11 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 “tama”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- sinuoso
sinuoso
38,771 corpus weight
- socado
socado
38,767 corpus weight
- tama
tama
38,749 corpus weight
- torrencial
torrencial
38,738 corpus weight
- transdutor
transdutor
38,735 corpus weight
- vacância
vacância
38,725 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “tama” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tama |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈta.ma/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #61,252 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “tama” em português
Rare enough to double-check
tama is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #61,252 among 917 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈta.ma/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "lança".
No misspelling variants are generated for tama in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is tama, spelled T-A-M-A.
Definition
- 1lança
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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