Tapera
/taˈpɛ.ɾɐ/
The verdict
“Tapera” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #50,249 among 1,850 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,249
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,850
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - município brasileiro do estado do Rio Grande do Sul
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tapera |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /taˈpɛ.ɾɐ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #50,249 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Tapera” sits in Portuguese frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Tapera is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #50,249 among 1,850 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /taˈpɛ.ɾɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "município brasileiro do estado do Rio Grande do Sul".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Tapera, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is Tapera, spelled T-A-P-E-R-A.
Definition
- 1município brasileiro do estado do Rio Grande do Sul
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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Using “Tapera”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is T-A-P-E-R-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /taˈpɛ.ɾɐ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.