tifo
The verdict
“tifo” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #46,096. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,096
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - nome genérico das doenças causadas pela bactéria Rickettsiae
Corpus desk
Index PT-tifo · tifo · Portuguese
tifo · rank #46,096 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,096
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH terrible
Nearest frequency peer: terrible (-7 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 “tifo”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- symbol
symbol
53,921 corpus weight
- terrible
terrible
53,912 corpus weight
- tifo
tifo
53,905 corpus weight
- trampa
trampa
53,896 corpus weight
- Tuesday
Tuesday
53,892 corpus weight
- vivacidade
vivacidade
53,884 corpus weight
What this shows “tifo” 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 | tifo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #46,096 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “tifo”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around tifo, anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,096 among 917 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "nome genérico das doenças causadas pela bactéria Rickettsiae".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for tifo, with forms such as "itfo", "tfio", and "tiffo". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "to", "tio", "two", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is tifo, spelled T-I-F-O.
Definition
- 1nome genérico das doenças causadas pela bactéria Rickettsiae
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tifo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A peça foi escrita em 1836, um ano antes da morte prematura por tifo de Büchner, aos 23 anos.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- itfo
- tfio
- tiffo
- tiof
- ttifo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tifo - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).