tarde

/'tax.dʒɪ/

//'tax.dʒɪ// adv

The verdict

“tarde” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #279. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#279
frequency rank, Portuguese
917
“T” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
15
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - tardiamente, atrasado

Corpus desk

Index PT-tarde · tarde · Portuguese

tarde · rank #279 · 7 variants · 15 confusables

  • FREQ-CORE #279
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-MID 917
  • PHOTO-FINISH local

Nearest frequency peer: local (+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.

Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “tarde”

Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho

corpus weight

What this shows “tarde” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

tarde vs tre
60% similar
tarde vs true
60% similar
tarde vs torre
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for tarde
PropertyValue
Headwordtarde
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAdverb
IPA/'tax.dʒɪ/
Letters5
Frequency rank#279
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs15
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequência do íman ortográfico “tarde”

Esta escala corre do núcleo do português quotidiano (esquerda) até o rastro de formas raras (direita).tardecai aqui:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

O eixo é logarítmico: cada tick marca cerca de dez vezes menos frequência. Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “local” (#280), “morte” (#281), “frente” (#276). Entre 917 lemas com “T”, “tarde” fica em #279. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around tarde (IPA /'tax.dʒɪ/), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #279 among 917 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "tardiamente, atrasado".

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for tarde, with forms such as "atrde", "tadre", and "tardde". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "tre", "true", "torre", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 tarde, spelled T-A-R-D-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    tardiamente, atrasado

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • atrde
  • tadre
  • tardde
  • tared
  • tarrde
  • trade
  • ttarde

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tarde - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

atrde2tadre2tardde1tared2tarrde1trade2ttarde1
Edit distance from "tarde"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tarde"?
"tarde" is spelled T-A-R-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is /'tax.dʒɪ/.
What does "tarde" mean?
As an adverb, "tarde" means: tardiamente, atrasado
What words are commonly confused with "tarde"?
"tarde" is commonly confused with "tre", "true", "torre". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "tarde"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tarde" is /'tax.dʒɪ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tarde" come from?
"tarde" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tarde", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list