Tanzania
The verdict
“Tanzania” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #63,865 among 917 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,865
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tanzânia
Corpus desk
Index PT-tanzania · Tanzania · Portuguese
Tanzania · rank #63,865 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,865
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH tamboril
Nearest frequency peer: tamboril (-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 “Tanzania”
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 “Tanzania” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tanzania |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #63,865 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “Tanzania” em português
Rare enough to double-check
Tanzania is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #63,865 among 917 “T” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tanzânia".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Tanzania, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is Tanzania, spelled T-A-N-Z-A-N-I-A.
Definition
- 1Tanzânia
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Tanzania appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
El laco Tanganica ye rodiato por cuatro países: Burundi, a Republica Democratica d'o Congo, Tanzania y Zambia.
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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