tique
The verdict
“tique” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #49,208. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,208
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - movimento ou vocalização humanos involuntários, súbitos e repetitivos, que envolvem um determinado grupo de músculos
Corpus desk
Index PT-tique · tique · Portuguese
tique · rank #49,208 · 6 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,208
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH transmissível
Nearest frequency peer: transmissível (+6 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 “tique”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- Sudan
Sudan
50,804 corpus weight
- tique
tique
50,793 corpus weight
- transmissív…
transmissível
50,787 corpus weight
- triangulação
triangulação
50,785 corpus weight
- ultramar
ultramar
50,777 corpus weight
- unser
unser
50,775 corpus weight
What this shows “tique” 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 | tique |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #49,208 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “tique”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around tique, anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,208 among 917 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for tique, with forms such as "itque", "tiqeu", and "tiqque". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "tive", "true", "toque", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is tique, spelled T-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1movimento ou vocalização humanos involuntários, súbitos e repetitivos, que envolvem um determinado grupo de músculos
- 2hábito ridículo
- 3som do relógio
- 4símbolo em formato semelhante à letra V usado como sinalizador de escolha de item dentre uma seleção de itens
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"Vibrei quando descobri que Helen tinha o tique de puxar uma mecha do cabelo com a mão", diz ela.
Tique, taque, tique, taque. A batida do relógio pontua quase todo o show, o relógio está no telão na abertura, está no pescoço do DJ.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- itque
- tiqeu
- tiqque
- tiuqe
- tqiue
- ttique
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tique - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tique", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).