tuberculose
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#12,792
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
16
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
tuberculose is aPortuguesenoun. It means: doença infectocontagiosa e endêmica, provocada pelo Mycobacterium tuberculosis ou bacilo de Koch, podendo atingir quase todos os tecidos do corpo, especialmente os pulmões, caracterizada pela forma... Pronounced /tubeʁkulozi/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tuberculose |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /tubeʁkulozi/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #12,792 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for tuberculose is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /tubeʁkulozi/. Corpus data places it at rank #12,792 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for tuberculose, with forms such as "tbuerculose", "ttuberculose", and "tubberculose". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is tuberculose, spelled T-U-B-E-R-C-U-L-O-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1doença infectocontagiosa e endêmica, provocada pelo Mycobacterium tuberculosis ou bacilo de Koch, podendo atingir quase todos os tecidos do corpo, especialmente os pulmões, caracterizada pela formação de tubérculos caseosos
- 2designação comum a algumas bacterioses vegetais que se manifestam pela formação de nodosidades nos tecidos
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: tbuerculose,ttuberculose,tubberculose,tubecrulose,tubercculose,tubercluose,tubercullose,tuberculoes,tuberculosse,tuberculsoe,tubercuolse,tuberrculose,tuberuclose,tubreculose,tuebrculose,utberculose
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tuberculose
Misspelling Variants of "tuberculose"
Frequency rank: #12,792 in Portuguese
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