houve
The verdict
“houve” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #672. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #672
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 409
- “H” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - primeira pessoa do singular do pretérito perfeito do indicativo do verbo haver
Corpus desk
Index PT-houve · houve · Portuguese
houve · rank #672 · 6 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #672
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 409
- PHOTO-FINISH decisão
Nearest frequency peer: decisão (-3 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.
Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “houve”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- comum
comum
99,334 corpus weight
- conseguir
conseguir
99,333 corpus weight
- decisão
decisão
99,332 corpus weight
- houve
houve
99,329 corpus weight
- on
on
99,326 corpus weight
- sentido
sentido
99,324 corpus weight
What this shows “houve” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | houve |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #672 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “houve”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around houve, averb. Corpus frequency is #672 among 409 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for houve, with forms such as "hhouve", "houev", and "houvve". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "houver", "hoje", "have", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is houve, spelled H-O-U-V-E.
Definition
- 1primeira pessoa do singular do pretérito perfeito do indicativo do verbo haver
- 2terceira pessoa do singular do pretérito perfeito do indicativo do verbo haver
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how houve appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
ele, ela, você houve
Que sempre houve entre muitos diferenças.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhouve
- houev
- houvve
- hovue
- huove
- ohuve
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of houve - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "houve", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).