tenente
The verdict
“tenente” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #3,523. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,523
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,850
- “T” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - patente das forças armadas abaixo do capitão
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 | tenente |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,523 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tenente” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around tenente, anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,523 among 1,850 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "patente das forças armadas abaixo do capitão".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for tenente, with forms such as "etnente", "teennte", and "tenenet". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "tangente", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is tenente, spelled T-E-N-E-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1patente das forças armadas abaixo do capitão
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etnente
- teennte
- tenenet
- tenennte
- tenentte
- tenetne
- tennente
- tennete
- tneente
- ttenente
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tenente - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 “tenente”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is T-E-N-E-N-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “tangente” - see the side-by-side comparison. tenente vs tangente
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Same frequency band
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.