telheiro

noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “telheiro” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for telheiro
PropertyValue
Headwordtelheiro
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters8
Frequency rank#86,901
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “telheiro” em português

Esta escala corre do núcleo do português quotidiano (esquerda) até o rastro de formas raras (direita).telheirocai nesta cauda de raridade:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

O eixo é logarítmico: cada tick marca cerca de dez vezes menos frequência. Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “tentares” (#86,905), “territorialmente” (#86,906), “Terrorist” (#86,907). Entre 917 lemas com “T”, “telheiro” fica em #86,901. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    fabricante de telhas
  2. 2
    teto saliente que cobre a entrada de um edifício

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how telheiro appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "telheiro"?
"telheiro" is spelled T-E-L-H-E-I-R-O.
What does "telheiro" mean?
As a noun, "telheiro" means: fabricante de telhas
What language does "telheiro" come from?
"telheiro" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "telheiro", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list