timber
AFI: /ˈtɪmbə/
The verdict
“timber” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #71,391 among 917 “T” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,391
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - madeira!
Corpus desk
Index PT-timber · timber · Portuguese
timber · rank #71,391 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,391
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH tonal
Nearest frequency peer: tonal (+2 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 “timber”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- subterfúgio
subterfúgio
28,636 corpus weight
- sustenido
sustenido
28,630 corpus weight
- timber
timber
28,610 corpus weight
- tonal
tonal
28,608 corpus weight
- vacilante
vacilante
28,583 corpus weight
- ventilar
ventilar
28,577 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “timber” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | timber |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | AFI: /ˈtɪmbə/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #71,391 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “timber” em português
Rare enough to double-check
timber is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #71,391 among 917 “T” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed AFI: /ˈtɪmbə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "madeira!".
timber doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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. The correct Portuguese form is timber, spelled T-I-M-B-E-R.
Definition
- 1madeira!
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).