tilápia
The verdict
“tilápia” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #60,055 among 917 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,055
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - peixe do género Tilapia
Corpus desk
Index PT-tilapia · tilápia · Portuguese
tilápia · rank #60,055 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,055
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH sórdido
Nearest frequency peer: sórdido (-5 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 “tilápia”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- sucks
sucks
39,961 corpus weight
- sudoku
sudoku
39,959 corpus weight
- sórdido
sórdido
39,951 corpus weight
- tilápia
tilápia
39,946 corpus weight
- tuning
tuning
39,935 corpus weight
- tónico
tónico
39,933 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “tilápia” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tilápia |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #60,055 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “tilápia” em português
Rare enough to double-check
tilápia is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #60,055 among 917 “T” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "peixe do género Tilapia".
Zero misspellings are on record for tilápia in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, 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 explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is tilápia, spelled T-I-L-Á-P-I-A.
Definition
- 1peixe do género Tilapia
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tilápia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
«A tilápia com manteiga de alcaparras, tomate-cereja e manjericão é um prato delicioso e fácil de fazer.»
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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