tereré
/te.ɾeˈɾɛ/
The verdict
“tereré” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #55,846 among 917 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,846
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - refresco de erva-mate preparado com água gelada e tomado com bombilha
Corpus desk
Index PT-terere · tereré · Portuguese
tereré · rank #55,846 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,846
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH sátiro
Nearest frequency peer: sátiro (-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 “tereré”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- soldar
soldar
44,174 corpus weight
- sujeição
sujeição
44,165 corpus weight
- sátiro
sátiro
44,159 corpus weight
- tereré
tereré
44,155 corpus weight
- ties
ties
44,151 corpus weight
- torresmo
torresmo
44,147 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “tereré” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tereré |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /te.ɾeˈɾɛ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #55,846 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “tereré” em português
Rare enough to double-check
tereré is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #55,846 among 917 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /te.ɾeˈɾɛ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for tereré, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is tereré, spelled T-E-R-E-R-É.
Definition
- 1refresco de erva-mate preparado com água gelada e tomado com bombilha
- 2bate-papo enquanto se lancha no intervalo entre dois turnos de trabalho
- 3aplique de linhas coloridas sobre uma trança de cabelo
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).