tenor
/tɨ.ˈnoɾ/
The verdict
“tenor” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #33,636. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,636
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - a voz mais aguda dum homem
Corpus desk
Index PT-tenor · tenor · Portuguese
tenor · rank #33,636 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,636
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH tenebroso
Nearest frequency peer: tenebroso (-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 “tenor”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- sujeitar
sujeitar
66,375 corpus weight
- Sure
Sure
66,372 corpus weight
- tenebroso
tenebroso
66,366 corpus weight
- tenor
tenor
66,365 corpus weight
- termal
termal
66,364 corpus weight
- torrente
torrente
66,362 corpus weight
What this shows “tenor” 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 | tenor |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /tɨ.ˈnoɾ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #33,636 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “tenor”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around tenor (IPA /tɨ.ˈnoɾ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,636 among 917 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for tenor, with forms such as "etnor", "tennor", and "tenorr". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ter", "Tor", "tens", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is tenor, spelled T-E-N-O-R.
Definition
- 1a voz mais aguda dum homem
- 2um homem que canta com voz de tenor
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etnor
- tennor
- tenorr
- teonr
- tneor
- ttenor
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tenor - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "tenor", 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 (6 here; floor ≥5).