torneiro
The verdict
“torneiro” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #63,215 among 917 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,215
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - profissional que molda peças
Corpus desk
Index PT-torneiro · torneiro · Portuguese
torneiro · rank #63,215 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,215
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH tez
Nearest frequency peer: tez (-5 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 “torneiro”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- subtropical
subtropical
36,804 corpus weight
- tarântula
tarântula
36,795 corpus weight
- terminantem…
terminantemente
36,793 corpus weight
- tez
tez
36,791 corpus weight
- torneiro
torneiro
36,786 corpus weight
- transpirar
transpirar
36,781 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “torneiro” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | torneiro |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #63,215 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “torneiro” em português
Rare enough to double-check
torneiro is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #63,215 among 917 “T” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "profissional que molda peças".
Zero misspellings are on record for torneiro in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, 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 easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is torneiro, spelled T-O-R-N-E-I-R-O.
Definition
- 1profissional que molda peças
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how torneiro appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Para bem representar fez “uma imersão na vida do presidente”, até curso de torneiro mecânico no Senai da Mooca.
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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