tecla
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,731
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
tecla is aPortuguesenoun. It means: cada uma das peças de um piano que ao serem acionadas pelos dedos do pianista geram um determinado som Often confused with terá and tema.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tecla |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #14,731 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for tecla is 5 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #14,731 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for tecla, with forms such as "etcla", "tcela", and "tecal". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "terá", "tema", "tela", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is tecla, spelled T-E-C-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1cada uma das peças de um piano que ao serem acionadas pelos dedos do pianista geram um determinado som
- 2peça equivalente em outros instrumentos musicais
- 3peça equivalente em maquinismos diversos e que servem para realizar tarefas mínimas
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: etcla,tcela,tecal,teccla,teclla,telca,ttecla
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tecla
Misspelling Variants of "tecla"
Frequency rank: #14,731 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter T in our Portuguese index: