tap
/tæp/
The verdict
“tap” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #22,172) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #22,172
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - torneira
Corpus desk
Index PT-tap · tap · Portuguese
tap · rank #22,172 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,172
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH surfar
Nearest frequency peer: surfar (-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 “tap”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- socorrer
socorrer
77,835 corpus weight
- soda
soda
77,834 corpus weight
- surfar
surfar
77,830 corpus weight
- tap
tap
77,829 corpus weight
- teimoso
teimoso
77,827 corpus weight
- virilha
virilha
77,814 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “tap” 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 | tap |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /tæp/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #22,172 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “tap”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for tap is neighbouring look-alikes ("te", "to", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /tæp/. Frequency #22,172 among 917 “T” headwords. Gloss: "torneira".
No generated misspelling entries exist for tap in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "te", "to", "tu", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is tap, spelled T-A-P.
Definition
- 1torneira
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).