tonal
The verdict
“tonal” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #71,393 among 917 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,393
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - relativo ao tom ou à tonalidade
Corpus desk
Index PT-tonal · tonal · Portuguese
tonal · rank #71,393 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,393
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH timber
Nearest frequency peer: timber (-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 “tonal”
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 “tonal” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| 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) |
Cauda longa: rank de “tonal” em português
Rare enough to double-check
tonal is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #71,393 among 917 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tonal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Essas duas formas de fazer música - a cadência tonal ocidental e os modelos rítmicos africanos - se encontraram e se recriaram no Novo Mundo.
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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