tortuga
/tɔrˈtuɣa/
The verdict
“tortuga” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #70,654 among 917 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,654
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - tartaruga
Corpus desk
Index PT-tortuga · tortuga · Portuguese
tortuga · rank #70,654 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,654
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH transgredir
Nearest frequency peer: transgredir (+9 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 “tortuga”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- swear
swear
29,372 corpus weight
- tally
tally
29,367 corpus weight
- tavern
tavern
29,361 corpus weight
- tortuga
tortuga
29,347 corpus weight
- transgredir
transgredir
29,338 corpus weight
- troiano
troiano
29,331 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “tortuga” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tortuga |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /tɔrˈtuɣa/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #70,654 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “tortuga” em português
Rare enough to double-check
tortuga is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #70,654 among 917 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /tɔrˈtuɣa/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "tartaruga".
Zero misspellings are on record for tortuga in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is tortuga, spelled T-O-R-T-U-G-A.
Definition
- 1tartaruga
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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