teem
/tiːm/
The verdict
“teem” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #42,238) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #42,238
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - fervilhar
Corpus desk
Index PT-teem · teem · Portuguese
teem · rank #42,238 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,238
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH tenaz
Nearest frequency peer: tenaz (+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 “teem”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- subscrição
subscrição
57,772 corpus weight
- sucinta
sucinta
57,771 corpus weight
- teem
teem
57,763 corpus weight
- tenaz
tenaz
57,762 corpus weight
- transitório
transitório
57,757 corpus weight
- travesso
travesso
57,754 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “teem” 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 | teem |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /tiːm/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #42,238 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “teem”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for teem is neighbouring look-alikes ("tem", "ter", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced /tiːm/. Frequency #42,238 among 917 “T” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for teem, with forms such as "etem", "teemm", and "tteem". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tem", "ter", "the", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is teem, spelled T-E-E-M.
Definition
- 1fervilhar
- 2proliferar
- 3frutificar
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etem
- teemm
- tteem
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of teem - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "teem", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).