tamboril
/tɐ̃.bu.ˈɾiɫ/
The verdict
“tamboril” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #63,863 among 917 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,863
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - tambor pequeno
Corpus desk
Index PT-tamboril · tamboril · Portuguese
tamboril · rank #63,863 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,863
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH Tanzania
Nearest frequency peer: Tanzania (+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.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “tamboril”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- Sudene
Sudene
36,142 corpus weight
- tamboril
tamboril
36,138 corpus weight
- Tanzania
Tanzania
36,136 corpus weight
- trabalheira
trabalheira
36,123 corpus weight
- travessura
travessura
36,121 corpus weight
- treaty
treaty
36,120 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “tamboril” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tamboril |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /tɐ̃.bu.ˈɾiɫ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #63,863 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “tamboril” em português
Rare enough to double-check
tamboril is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #63,863 among 917 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /tɐ̃.bu.ˈɾiɫ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 9 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tamboril, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is tamboril, spelled T-A-M-B-O-R-I-L.
Definition
- 1tambor pequeno
- 2instrumento musical de cordas e membranas percutidas com baqueta
- 3tocador dos instrumentos 1 ou 2
- 4dança medieval que era acompanhada dos instrumentos 1 ou 2
- 5planta da família das Leguminosas cuja madeira serve para o fabrico de canoas
- 6peixe teleósteo comestível
- 7imboúva (Enterolobium timbouva)
- 8pau-carrapato (Lonchocarpus sericeus)
- 9canafístula
Synonyms
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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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