teco
The verdict
“teco” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #43,185. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,185
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - tiro de arma de fogo
Corpus desk
Index PT-teco · teco · Portuguese
teco · rank #43,185 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,185
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH throw
Nearest frequency peer: throw (+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.
Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “teco”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- sting
sting
56,834 corpus weight
- subverter
subverter
56,827 corpus weight
- teco
teco
56,816 corpus weight
- throw
throw
56,814 corpus weight
- Thursday
Thursday
56,813 corpus weight
- torradeira
torradeira
56,806 corpus weight
What this shows “teco” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
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 | teco |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #43,185 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “teco”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around teco, anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,185 among 917 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for teco, with forms such as "etco", "tceo", and "tecco". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "to", "tem", "ter", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is teco, spelled T-E-C-O.
Definition
- 1tiro de arma de fogo
- 2pedaço
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etco
- tceo
- tecco
- teoc
- tteco
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of teco - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "teco", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).