# tem vs teo

> Spanish confusable word pair

## The two words

### tem
*noun · IPA /tem/ · frequency rank #46,838*
Escalón.

### teo
*verb · IPA [ˈt̪eo] · frequency rank #25,838*
Variante de tengo

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/es/vs/tem-vs-teo