tanger
The verdict
“tanger” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #85,161 among 917 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,161
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - som, ruído, toque (de um instrumento musical):
Corpus desk
Index PT-tanger · tanger · Portuguese
tanger · rank #85,161 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,161
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH tenro
Nearest frequency peer: tenro (+6 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 “tanger”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- Synapse
Synapse
14,848 corpus weight
- tanger
tanger
14,840 corpus weight
- tenro
tenro
14,834 corpus weight
- timbrado
timbrado
14,824 corpus weight
- tolerance
tolerance
14,820 corpus weight
- tortilha
tortilha
14,817 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “tanger” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tanger |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #85,161 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “tanger” em português
Rare enough to double-check
tanger is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #85,161 among 917 “T” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "som, ruído, toque (de um instrumento musical):".
tanger doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 tanger, spelled T-A-N-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1som, ruído, toque (de um instrumento musical):
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tanger appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ouço o tanger dos sinos e sou imediatamente tomado pela nostalgia.
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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