tétum
/ˈtɛ.tũ/
The verdict
“tétum” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #58,842 among 917 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,842
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - língua malaio-polinésia falada no Timor-Leste (código de língua ISO 639-3: tet)
Corpus desk
Index PT-tetum · tétum · Portuguese
tétum · rank #58,842 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,842
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH travo
Nearest frequency peer: travo (-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 “tétum”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- telefónico
telefónico
41,178 corpus weight
- travo
travo
41,163 corpus weight
- tétum
tétum
41,159 corpus weight
- valoração
valoração
41,153 corpus weight
- vastamente
vastamente
41,151 corpus weight
- visado
visado
41,146 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “tétum” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tétum |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈtɛ.tũ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #58,842 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “tétum” em português
Rare enough to double-check
tétum is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #58,842 among 917 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈtɛ.tũ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "língua malaio-polinésia falada no Timor-Leste (código de língua ISO 639-3: tet)".
No misspelling variants are generated for tétum in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is tétum, spelled T-É-T-U-M.
Definition
- 1língua malaio-polinésia falada no Timor-Leste (código de língua ISO 639-3: tet)
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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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