TEA
The verdict
“TEA” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,006) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,006
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - transtorno do espectro autista
Corpus desk
Index PT-tea · TEA · Portuguese
TEA · rank #19,006 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,006
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH tailandês
Nearest frequency peer: tailandês (-2 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 “TEA”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- sóbrio
sóbrio
80,998 corpus weight
- tailandês
tailandês
80,997 corpus weight
- TEA
TEA
80,995 corpus weight
- thanks
thanks
80,991 corpus weight
- titânio
titânio
80,988 corpus weight
- tonto
tonto
80,987 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “TEA” 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 | TEA |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #19,006 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “TEA”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for TEA is neighbouring look-alikes ("to", "tu", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation. Frequency #19,006 among 917 “T” headwords. Gloss: "transtorno do espectro autista".
TEA has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "to", "tu", "ti", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 TEA, spelled T-E-A.
Definition
- 1transtorno do espectro autista
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how TEA appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Candidatos de concursos públicos diagnosticados com Transtorno do Espectro Autista (TEA) de nível um — o mais leve em uma escala de três — acionaram a Justiça contra bancas organizadoras após serem impedidos de disputar vagas reservadas a Pessoas com Deficiência (PCD).
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 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).