temos

verb

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#292

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

temos is aPortugueseverb. It means: primeira pessoa do plural do presente do indicativo do verbo ter It ranks #292 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with tens and tomo.

Key facts for temos
PropertyValue
Headwordtemos
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechVerb
Letters5
Frequency rank#292
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of temos in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for temos is 5 letters long, classified as averb. Corpus data places it at rank #292 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "primeira pessoa do plural do presente do indicativo do verbo ter".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for temos, with forms such as "etmos", "temmos", and "temoss". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tens", "tomo", "teor", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is temos, spelled T-E-M-O-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    primeira pessoa do plural do presente do indicativo do verbo ter

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: etmos,temmos,temoss,temso,teoms,tmeos,ttemos

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for temos

Misspelling Variants of "temos"

etmos5temmos6temoss6temso5teoms5tmeos5ttemos6
Misspelling Variants of "temos"

Frequency rank: #292 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "temos"?
"temos" is spelled T-E-M-O-S.
What does "temos" mean?
As a verb, "temos" means: primeira pessoa do plural do presente do indicativo do verbo ter
What words are commonly confused with "temos"?
"temos" is commonly confused with "tens", "tomo", "teor". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "temos" come from?
"temos" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter T in our Portuguese index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.