taurus
/ˈtau.rus/
The verdict
“taurus” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #38,047. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,047
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - touro, macho adulto da espécie Bos taurus
Corpus desk
Index PT-taurus · taurus · Portuguese
taurus · rank #38,047 · 8 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,047
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH sussurro
Nearest frequency peer: sussurro (-6 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 “taurus”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- sincronizar
sincronizar
61,981 corpus weight
- subtrair
subtrair
61,965 corpus weight
- suspeição
suspeição
61,961 corpus weight
- sussurro
sussurro
61,960 corpus weight
- taurus
taurus
61,954 corpus weight
- transitar
transitar
61,941 corpus weight
What this shows “taurus” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | taurus |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈtau.rus/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #38,047 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “taurus”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around taurus (IPA /ˈtau.rus/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,047 among 917 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for taurus, with forms such as "aturus", "taruus", and "taurrus". 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. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is taurus, spelled T-A-U-R-U-S.
Definition
- 1touro, macho adulto da espécie Bos taurus
- 2instrumento de tortura, no formato de um touro
- 3pequena ave que soa como o mugido de bois
- 4espécie de besouro
- 5períneo
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aturus
- taruus
- taurrus
- taursu
- tauruss
- tauurs
- ttaurus
- tuarus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of taurus - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).