Which to use
“telha” and “telhado” are a confusable Portuguese pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #24,173
- “telha” frequency rank
- #7,702
- “telhado” frequency rank
- 31875
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | telha | telhado |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | peça de barro cozido ou de outro material (pedra, cimento-amianto, metal, vidro, plástico, madeira etc.), usado na cobertura de casas e outros edifícios | conjunto de telhas que cobrem um edifício, uma casa, etc. |
Where the eye mixes telha and telhado
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. telha runs 5 letters (CVCCV) against telhado's 7 (CVCCVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Visual trap between telha and telhado
A purely visual mix-up. telha (/ˈtɐj.ʎɐ/) and telhado (/te.ˈʎa.du/) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “telha” sits inside “telhado”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 31875, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
telha is recorded at frequency rank #24,173, classified as anoun, pronounced /ˈtɐj.ʎɐ/. telhado is at rank #7,702, tagged as anoun, pronounced /te.ˈʎa.du/.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 31875, this pair ranks #36,086 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of telha vs telhado
Shared letters: aehlt. Private to "telha": -. Private to "telhado": do.
"telha" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV · "telhado" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "telha" and "telhado" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "telha" vs "telhado" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
Eye-level mix-up between "telha" and "telhado" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "telha" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "telhado" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #36,086 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "telha" and "telhado" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "telha vs tralha". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #36,086 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.