taxando
/taˈʃɐ̃.du/
The verdict
“taxando” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #74,365 among 917 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,365
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - gerúndio do verbo taxar
Corpus desk
Index PT-taxando · taxando · Portuguese
taxando · rank #74,365 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,365
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH taxímetro
Nearest frequency peer: taxímetro (+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.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “taxando”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- strogonoff
strogonoff
25,655 corpus weight
- swell
swell
25,640 corpus weight
- taxando
taxando
25,636 corpus weight
- taxímetro
taxímetro
25,635 corpus weight
- toll
toll
25,625 corpus weight
- triturado
triturado
25,616 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “taxando” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | taxando |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /taˈʃɐ̃.du/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #74,365 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “taxando” em português
Rare enough to double-check
taxando is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #74,365 among 917 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /taˈʃɐ̃.du/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "gerúndio do verbo taxar".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for taxando, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is taxando, spelled T-A-X-A-N-D-O.
Definition
- 1gerúndio do verbo taxar
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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