telheiro
The verdict
“telheiro” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #86,901 among 917 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,901
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - fabricante de telhas
Corpus desk
Index PT-telheiro · telheiro · Portuguese
telheiro · rank #86,901 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,901
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH tentares
Nearest frequency peer: tentares (+4 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.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “telheiro”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- sementeira
sementeira
13,140 corpus weight
- telheiro
telheiro
13,100 corpus weight
- tentares
tentares
13,096 corpus weight
- territorial…
territorialmente
13,095 corpus weight
- Terrorist
Terrorist
13,094 corpus weight
- tirante
tirante
13,088 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “telheiro” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | telheiro |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #86,901 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “telheiro” em português
Rare enough to double-check
telheiro is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #86,901 among 917 “T” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
telheiro has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is telheiro, spelled T-E-L-H-E-I-R-O.
Definition
- 1fabricante de telhas
- 2teto saliente que cobre a entrada de um edifício
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how telheiro appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jacques, absolutamente sério, mostrou o telheiro e o automóvel, como um jovem lord inglês mostraria os seus domínios, parques e castelos.
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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).