tonel
/tu.ˈnɛɫ/
The verdict
“tonel” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #67,812 among 917 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,812
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - grande vasilha para líquidos (vinhos)
Corpus desk
Index PT-tonel · tonel · Portuguese
tonel · rank #67,812 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,812
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH Tessália
Nearest frequency peer: Tessália (-7 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 “tonel”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- sémen
sémen
32,208 corpus weight
- termonuclear
termonuclear
32,197 corpus weight
- Tessália
Tessália
32,196 corpus weight
- tonel
tonel
32,189 corpus weight
- trincar
trincar
32,180 corpus weight
- vague
vague
32,173 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “tonel” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tonel |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /tu.ˈnɛɫ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #67,812 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “tonel” em português
Rare enough to double-check
tonel is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #67,812 among 917 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /tu.ˈnɛɫ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "grande vasilha para líquidos (vinhos)".
tonel has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is tonel, spelled T-O-N-E-L.
Definition
- 1grande vasilha para líquidos (vinhos)
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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