telha
/ˈtɐj.ʎɐ/
The verdict
“telha” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #24,173. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,173
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - peça de barro cozido ou de outro material (pedra, cimento-amianto, metal, vidro, plástico, madeira etc.), usado na cobertura de casas e outros edifícios
Corpus desk
Index PT-telha · telha · Portuguese
telha · rank #24,173 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,173
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH teimosia
Nearest frequency peer: teimosia (-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.
Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “telha”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- spoiler
spoiler
75,836 corpus weight
- tata
tata
75,833 corpus weight
- teimosia
teimosia
75,829 corpus weight
- telha
telha
75,828 corpus weight
- tiveste
tiveste
75,822 corpus weight
- ultravioleta
ultravioleta
75,816 corpus weight
What this shows “telha” 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 | telha |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈtɐj.ʎɐ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #24,173 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “telha”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around telha (IPA /ˈtɐj.ʎɐ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,173 among 917 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for telha, with forms such as "etlha", "tehla", and "telah". 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. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tha", "terá", "tema", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 telha, spelled T-E-L-H-A.
Definition
- 1peça de barro cozido ou de outro material (pedra, cimento-amianto, metal, vidro, plástico, madeira etc.), usado na cobertura de casas e outros edifícios
- 2pensamento
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how telha appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A nova produtora só faz o que dá na telha e está nem aí.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etlha
- tehla
- telah
- telhha
- tellha
- tleha
- ttelha
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of telha - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "telha", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).