têmpora
The verdict
“têmpora” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #80,022 among 917 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,022
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - parte da cabeça ao lado dos olhos
Corpus desk
Index PT-tempora · têmpora · Portuguese
têmpora · rank #80,022 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,022
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH tâmara
Nearest frequency peer: tâmara (-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.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “têmpora”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- tâmara
tâmara
19,981 corpus weight
- têmpora
têmpora
19,979 corpus weight
- utilitarista
utilitarista
19,972 corpus weight
- velame
velame
19,966 corpus weight
- velódromo
velódromo
19,964 corpus weight
- violette
violette
19,958 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “têmpora” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | têmpora |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #80,022 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “têmpora” em português
Rare enough to double-check
têmpora is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #80,022 among 917 “T” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "parte da cabeça ao lado dos olhos".
têmpora doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is têmpora, spelled T-Ê-M-P-O-R-A.
Definition
- 1parte da cabeça ao lado dos olhos
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how têmpora appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
O corpo do rapaz, de 21 anos, foi encontrado com um tiro na têmpora às 20h15 do dia 6.
This word in other languages
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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