tímpano

//ˈtĩ.pɐ.nu// noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#50,269

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

tímpano is aPortuguesenoun. It means: membrana bastante fina e semitransparente do ouvido médio,na porção terminal do conduto audítivo, separando o ouvido externo do ouvido médio Pronounced /ˈtĩ.pɐ.nu/.

Key facts for tímpano
PropertyValue
Headwordtímpano
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/ˈtĩ.pɐ.nu/
Letters7
Frequency rank#50,269
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of tímpano in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for tímpano is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈtĩ.pɐ.nu/. Corpus data places it at rank #50,269 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for tímpano in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, 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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is tímpano, spelled T-Í-M-P-A-N-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    membrana bastante fina e semitransparente do ouvido médio,na porção terminal do conduto audítivo, separando o ouvido externo do ouvido médio
  2. 2
    peça de escultura limitada por arcos ou linhas
  3. 3
    espécie de tambor oco, com repartimentos em espiral, por intermédio dos quais se eleva a água de um depósito ou de uma corrente
  4. 4
    timbale
  5. 5
    caixilho de ferro, recoberto de estofo de algodão, ligado ao quadro do prelo por dois gonzos, e no qual se colocam as puncturas, se faz o alceamento, se regula a margem e se coloca sucessivamente cada uma das folhas a imprimir
  6. 6
    espaço geralmente triangular ou em arco, liso ou ornado com esculturas, limitado pelos três lados do frontão, por um ou mais arcos ou por linhas retas que assenta sobre o portal de entrada de uma igreja, catedral ou templo

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #50,269 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tímpano"?
"tímpano" is spelled T-Í-M-P-A-N-O. The IPA pronunciation is /ˈtĩ.pɐ.nu/.
What does "tímpano" mean?
As a noun, "tímpano" means: membrana bastante fina e semitransparente do ouvido médio,na porção terminal do conduto audítivo, separando o ouvido externo do ouvido médio
How do you pronounce "tímpano"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tímpano" is /ˈtĩ.pɐ.nu/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tímpano" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.