tampa
/ˈtɐ̃.pɐ/
The verdict
“tampa” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #7,980. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,980
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - peça com que se tapa uma panela, um vaso, uma caixa, etc.
Corpus desk
Index PT-tampa · tampa · Portuguese
tampa · rank #7,980 · 7 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,980
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH telefonia
Nearest frequency peer: telefonia (+1 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.
Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “tampa”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- sigilo
sigilo
92,024 corpus weight
- suma
suma
92,023 corpus weight
- tampa
tampa
92,021 corpus weight
- telefonia
telefonia
92,020 corpus weight
- touro
touro
92,018 corpus weight
- tranquilida…
tranquilidade
92,016 corpus weight
What this shows “tampa” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
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 | tampa |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈtɐ̃.pɐ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #7,980 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “tampa”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around tampa (IPA /ˈtɐ̃.pɐ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,980 among 917 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "peça com que se tapa uma panela, um vaso, uma caixa, etc.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for tampa, with forms such as "atmpa", "tamap", and "tammpa". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "tap", "tema", "taxa", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is tampa, spelled T-A-M-P-A.
Definition
- 1peça com que se tapa uma panela, um vaso, uma caixa, etc.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atmpa
- tamap
- tammpa
- tamppa
- tapma
- tmapa
- ttampa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tampa - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tampa", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).