tonal
The verdict
“tonal” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #71,393 in Portuguese word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #71,393
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - relativo ao tom ou à tonalidade
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tonal |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #71,393 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tonal” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for tonal is 5 letters long, classified as an adjective. Corpus data places it at rank #71,393 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "relativo ao tom ou à tonalidade".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tonal, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is tonal, spelled T-O-N-A-L.
Definition
- 1relativo ao tom ou à tonalidade
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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Using “tonal”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is T-O-N-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.