tântalo

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for tântalo is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈtɐ̃.tɐ.lu/. Corpus data places it at rank #50,268 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "elemento químico de símbolo Ta, também conhecido como tantálio, possui o número atômico 73 e massa atômica relativa 180,947 u; é um metal de transição azul grisáceo; é encontrado em minerais como a...".

No misspelling variants are generated for tântalo in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns.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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is tântalo, spelled T-Â-N-T-A-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.