teme
/ˈtɛ.mɛ/
The verdict
“teme” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #10,093) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #10,093
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - anta; tapir, Tapirus terrestris
Corpus desk
Index PT-teme · teme · Portuguese
teme · rank #10,093 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,093
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH ten
Nearest frequency peer: ten (+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 “teme”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- Stefan
Stefan
89,911 corpus weight
- suor
suor
89,910 corpus weight
- teme
teme
89,908 corpus weight
- ten
ten
89,907 corpus weight
- teor
teor
89,906 corpus weight
- transcrição
transcrição
89,902 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “teme” 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 | teme |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈtɛ.mɛ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #10,093 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “teme”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for teme is neighbouring look-alikes ("ter", "the", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈtɛ.mɛ/. Frequency #10,093 among 917 “T” headwords. Gloss: "anta; tapir, Tapirus terrestris".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for teme, with forms such as "etme", "temme", and "tmee". 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, "ter", "the", "teu", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is teme, spelled T-E-M-E.
Definition
- 1anta; tapir, Tapirus terrestris
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how teme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sekunya aitsa wauja ainxapai teme. Ojopai ainxapai.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etme
- temme
- tmee
- tteme
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of teme - 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 "teme", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).