typhoon
/taɪˈfuːn/
The verdict
“typhoon” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #72,852 among 917 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,852
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - tufão
Corpus desk
Index PT-typhoon · typhoon · Portuguese
typhoon · rank #72,852 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,852
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH tusa
Nearest frequency peer: tusa (-4 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 “typhoon”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- toxicodepen…
toxicodependência
27,166 corpus weight
- translator
translator
27,160 corpus weight
- tusa
tusa
27,153 corpus weight
- typhoon
typhoon
27,149 corpus weight
- urucum
urucum
27,141 corpus weight
- vagabundagem
vagabundagem
27,139 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “typhoon” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | typhoon |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /taɪˈfuːn/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #72,852 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “typhoon” em português
Rare enough to double-check
typhoon is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #72,852 among 917 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /taɪˈfuːn/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "tufão".
typhoon doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is typhoon, spelled T-Y-P-H-O-O-N.
Definition
- 1tufão
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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