tentáculo
/tẽ.ˈta.ku.lu/
The verdict
“tentáculo” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #59,441 among 917 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,441
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - apêndice não segmentado, geralmente flexível, do corpo de um animal, usado como órgão táctil, para a locomoção, ou para a alimentação
Corpus desk
Index PT-tentaculo · tentáculo · Portuguese
tentáculo · rank #59,441 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,441
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH tasca
Nearest frequency peer: tasca (-6 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 “tentáculo”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- sovaco
sovaco
40,577 corpus weight
- sumamente
sumamente
40,572 corpus weight
- séquito
séquito
40,570 corpus weight
- tasca
tasca
40,566 corpus weight
- tentáculo
tentáculo
40,560 corpus weight
- torga
torga
40,553 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “tentáculo” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tentáculo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /tẽ.ˈta.ku.lu/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #59,441 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “tentáculo” em português
Rare enough to double-check
tentáculo is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #59,441 among 917 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /tẽ.ˈta.ku.lu/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "apêndice não segmentado, geralmente flexível, do corpo de um animal, usado como órgão táctil, para a locomoção, ou para a alimentação".
tentáculo doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is tentáculo, spelled T-E-N-T-Á-C-U-L-O.
Definition
- 1apêndice não segmentado, geralmente flexível, do corpo de um animal, usado como órgão táctil, para a locomoção, ou para a alimentação
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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