tamanco
/tɐ.ˈmɐ̃.ku/
The verdict
“tamanco” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #64,521 among 917 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,521
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - calçado com planta de madeira
Corpus desk
Index PT-tamanco · tamanco · Portuguese
tamanco · rank #64,521 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,521
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH Swahili
Nearest frequency peer: Swahili (-7 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 “tamanco”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- successful
successful
35,494 corpus weight
- sudden
sudden
35,493 corpus weight
- Swahili
Swahili
35,487 corpus weight
- tamanco
tamanco
35,480 corpus weight
- tien
tien
35,470 corpus weight
- tini
tini
35,469 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “tamanco” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tamanco |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /tɐ.ˈmɐ̃.ku/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #64,521 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “tamanco” em português
Rare enough to double-check
tamanco is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #64,521 among 917 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /tɐ.ˈmɐ̃.ku/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "calçado com planta de madeira".
No misspelling variants are generated for tamanco in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is tamanco, spelled T-A-M-A-N-C-O.
Definition
- 1calçado com planta de madeira
This word in other languages
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "tamanco"?
What does "tamanco" mean?
How do you pronounce "tamanco"?
What language does "tamanco" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tamanco", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).