tendes

verb

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The verdict

“tendes” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #37,110. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#37,110
frequency rank, Portuguese
917
“T” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
10
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - segunda pessoa do plural do presente do indicativo do verbo ter

Corpus desk

Index PT-tendes · tendes · Portuguese

tendes · rank #37,110 · 9 variants · 10 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #37,110
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-MID 917
  • PHOTO-FINISH totó

Nearest frequency peer: totó (+2 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.

Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “tendes”

Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho

corpus weight

What this shows “tendes” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

tendes vs tens
67% similar
tendes vs tendo
67% similar
tendes vs tênis
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for tendes
PropertyValue
Headwordtendes
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechVerb
Letters6
Frequency rank#37,110
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequência do íman ortográfico “tendes”

A frequência vai do punhado de palavras do dia a dia (esquerda) à cauda longa quase nunca usada (direita).tendescai aqui:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Os ticks avançam em logaritmo; cada um é da ordem de dez vezes mais raro. Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “totó” (#37,112), “talco” (#37,106), “sílaba” (#37,105). Entre 917 lemas com “T”, “tendes” fica em #37,110. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around tendes, averb. Corpus frequency is #37,110 among 917 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for tendes, with forms such as "etndes", "tednes", and "tenddes". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "tens", "tendo", "tênis", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

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. The correct Portuguese form is tendes, spelled T-E-N-D-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    segunda pessoa do plural do presente do indicativo do verbo ter
  2. 2
    segunda pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo tender

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • etndes
  • tednes
  • tenddes
  • tendess
  • tendse
  • teneds
  • tenndes
  • tnedes
  • ttendes

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tendes - 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.

etndes2tednes2tenddes1tendess1tendse2teneds2tenndes1tnedes2
Edit distance from "tendes"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tendes"?
"tendes" is spelled T-E-N-D-E-S.
What does "tendes" mean?
As a verb, "tendes" means: segunda pessoa do plural do presente do indicativo do verbo ter
What words are commonly confused with "tendes"?
"tendes" is commonly confused with "tens", "tendo", "tênis". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "tendes" come from?
"tendes" is a Portuguese word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tendes", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

sílaba#37,105soneto#37,099apogeu#37,185arroba#37,189

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

assediar9 variantsepílogo9 variantscuscuz9 variantspanteão9 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list