tandem
/tˈɐ̃dẽ/
The verdict
“tandem” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #43,672. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,672
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - formado por duas partes/unidades
Corpus desk
Index PT-tandem · tandem · Portuguese
tandem · rank #43,672 · 9 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,672
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH tangará
Nearest frequency peer: tangará (+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 “tandem”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- sopé
sopé
56,339 corpus weight
- suportável
suportável
56,334 corpus weight
- tandem
tandem
56,329 corpus weight
- tangará
tangará
56,328 corpus weight
- tender
tender
56,324 corpus weight
- thorn
thorn
56,322 corpus weight
What this shows “tandem” 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 | tandem |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /tˈɐ̃dẽ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #43,672 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “tandem”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around tandem (IPA /tˈɐ̃dẽ/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #43,672 among 917 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for tandem, with forms such as "atndem", "tadnem", and "tanddem". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "tarde", "tende", "tendes", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is tandem, spelled T-A-N-D-E-M.
Definition
- 1formado por duas partes/unidades
- 2que vem um depois do outro
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atndem
- tadnem
- tanddem
- tandemm
- tandme
- tanedm
- tanndem
- tnadem
- ttandem
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tandem - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "tandem", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).