telhado

//te.ˈʎa.du// noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#7,702

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

telhado is aPortuguesenoun. It means: conjunto de telhas que cobrem um edifício, uma casa, etc. Pronounced /te.ˈʎa.du/. It ranks #7,702 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with testado and telha.

Key facts for telhado
PropertyValue
Headwordtelhado
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/te.ˈʎa.du/
Letters7
Frequency rank#7,702
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of telhado in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for telhado is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /te.ˈʎa.du/. Corpus data places it at rank #7,702 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for telhado, with forms such as "etlhado", "tehlado", and "telahdo". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "testado", "telha", "teclado", 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 telhado, spelled T-E-L-H-A-D-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    conjunto de telhas que cobrem um edifício, uma casa, etc.
  2. 2
    qualquer cobertura com outro material que faça a mesma função

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: etlhado,tehlado,telahdo,telhaddo,telhaod,telhdao,telhhado,tellhado,tlehado,ttelhado

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for telhado

Misspelling Variants of "telhado"

etlhado7tehlado7telahdo7telhaddo8telhaod7telhdao7telhhado8tellhado8
Misspelling Variants of "telhado"

Frequency rank: #7,702 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "telhado"?
"telhado" is spelled T-E-L-H-A-D-O. The IPA pronunciation is /te.ˈʎa.du/.
What does "telhado" mean?
As a noun, "telhado" means: conjunto de telhas que cobrem um edifício, uma casa, etc.
What words are commonly confused with "telhado"?
"telhado" is commonly confused with "testado", "telha", "teclado". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "telhado"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "telhado" is /te.ˈʎa.du/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "telhado" come from?
"telhado" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.