temos
The verdict
“temos” is in the everyday core of Portuguese, ranked #292 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a verb.
- #292
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 5
- letters
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - primeira pessoa do plural do presente do indicativo do verbo ter
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 | temos |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #292 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “temos” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for temos is 5 letters long, classified as a verb. 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 generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for temos, with forms such as "etmos", "temmos", and "temoss". 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, "tens", "tomo", "teor", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is temos, spelled T-E-M-O-S.
Definition
- 1primeira 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
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of temos - 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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Using “temos”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is T-E-M-O-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “tens” - see the side-by-side comparison. temos vs tens
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.