told
/tɔl/, [tˢʌlˀ], [ˈtʌlˀ]
The verdict
“told” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #29,938. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,938
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - taxa; tarifa (imposto cobrado sobre bens importados ou, em casos mais raros, exportados)
Corpus desk
Index PT-told · told · Portuguese
told · rank #29,938 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,938
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH tipologia
Nearest frequency peer: tipologia (-1 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 “told”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- tanga
tanga
70,074 corpus weight
- teológico
teológico
70,066 corpus weight
- tipologia
tipologia
70,064 corpus weight
- told
told
70,063 corpus weight
- trepar
trepar
70,058 corpus weight
- universalme…
universalmente
70,054 corpus weight
What this shows “told” 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 | told |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /tɔl/, [tˢʌlˀ], [ˈtʌlˀ] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #29,938 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “told”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around told (IPA /tɔl/, [tˢʌlˀ], [ˈtʌlˀ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,938 among 917 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for told, with forms such as "otld", "tlod", and "todl". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tom", "Tor", "topo", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 told, spelled T-O-L-D.
Definition
- 1taxa; tarifa (imposto cobrado sobre bens importados ou, em casos mais raros, exportados)
- 2alfândega; aduana
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- otld
- tlod
- todl
- toldd
- tolld
- ttold
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of told - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).