tão
/ˈtɐ̃w̃/
The verdict
“tão” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #119) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #119
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - tanto, com tal intensidade
Corpus desk
Index PT-tao · tão · Portuguese
tão · rank #119 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #119
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH sei
Nearest frequency peer: sei (-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.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “tão”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- parte
parte
99,887 corpus weight
- hoje
hoje
99,884 corpus weight
- sei
sei
99,883 corpus weight
- tão
tão
99,882 corpus weight
- então
então
99,881 corpus weight
- nem
nem
99,880 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “tão” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.
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 | tão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | /ˈtɐ̃w̃/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #119 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “tão”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for tão is neighbouring look-alikes ("te", "to", …), not just typos; it is anadverb pronounced /ˈtɐ̃w̃/. Frequency #119 among 917 “T” headwords. Gloss: "tanto, com tal intensidade".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tão, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "te", "to", "tu", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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. The correct Portuguese form is tão, spelled T-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1tanto, com tal intensidade
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tão appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tem tais e tão bons atributos...
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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