te
/tɨ/
The verdict
“te” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #59) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #59
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - a ti
Corpus desk
Index PT-te · te · Portuguese
te · rank #59 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #59
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH ter
Nearest frequency peer: ter (+1 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.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “te”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- até
até
99,946 corpus weight
- mesmo
mesmo
99,945 corpus weight
- te
te
99,942 corpus weight
- ter
ter
99,941 corpus weight
- tudo
tudo
99,940 corpus weight
- ainda
ainda
99,939 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “te” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.
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 | te |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | /tɨ/ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #59 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “te”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for te is neighbouring look-alikes ("to", "tu", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced /tɨ/. Frequency #59 among 917 “T” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for te in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "to", "tu", "ti", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is te, spelled T-E.
Definition
- 1a ti
- 2para ti
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.