tenaz
/tɨ.ˈnaʃ/
The verdict
“tenaz” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #42,239. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,239
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - muito aderente
Corpus desk
Index PT-tenaz · tenaz · Portuguese
tenaz · rank #42,239 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,239
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH teem
Nearest frequency peer: teem (-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 “tenaz”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- sucinta
sucinta
57,771 corpus weight
- teem
teem
57,763 corpus weight
- tenaz
tenaz
57,762 corpus weight
- transitório
transitório
57,757 corpus weight
- travesso
travesso
57,754 corpus weight
- triatlo
triatlo
57,753 corpus weight
What this shows “tenaz” 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 | tenaz |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /tɨ.ˈnaʃ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #42,239 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “tenaz”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around tenaz (IPA /tɨ.ˈnaʃ/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #42,239 among 917 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for tenaz, with forms such as "etnaz", "teanz", and "tenazz". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "terá", "tens", "teta", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 tenaz, spelled T-E-N-A-Z.
Definition
- 1muito aderente
- 2constante
- 3firme
- 4obstinado
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etnaz
- teanz
- tenazz
- tennaz
- tenza
- tneaz
- ttenaz
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tenaz - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "tenaz", 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).