til
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#44,136
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
til is aPortuguesenoun. It means: sinal diacrítico (~) utilizado para modificar a pronúncia de determinadas letras no português (indicando nasalização) e em alguns outros idiomas ( bretão ...) Pronounced /ˈʧiw/. Often confused with to and tu.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | til |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈʧiw/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #44,136 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for til is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈʧiw/. Corpus data places it at rank #44,136 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for til in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "to", "tu", "ty", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is til, spelled T-I-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1sinal diacrítico (~) utilizado para modificar a pronúncia de determinadas letras no português (indicando nasalização) e em alguns outros idiomas ( bretão ...)
- 2espécie de árvore da família das lauráceas nativa dos Açores e Madeira com cheiro desagradável (Ocotea foetens)
- 3tília, género/gênero de árvores da família Malvaceae
- 4bagatela, ninharia, algo insignificante
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Frequency rank: #44,136 in Portuguese
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