tengo
The verdict
“tengo” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #46,588. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,588
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - primeira pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo tener
Corpus desk
Index PT-tengo · tengo · Portuguese
tengo · rank #46,588 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,588
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH tendencioso
Nearest frequency peer: tendencioso (-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.
Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “tengo”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- squeeze
squeeze
53,427 corpus weight
- subdivisão
subdivisão
53,424 corpus weight
- tendencioso
tendencioso
53,414 corpus weight
- tengo
tengo
53,413 corpus weight
- torrar
torrar
53,408 corpus weight
- trapalhão
trapalhão
53,405 corpus weight
What this shows “tengo” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
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 | tengo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #46,588 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “tengo”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around tengo, averb. Corpus frequency is #46,588 among 917 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "primeira pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo tener".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for tengo, with forms such as "etngo", "tegno", and "tenggo". 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", "Togo", "tino", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is tengo, spelled T-E-N-G-O.
Definition
- 1primeira pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo tener
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etngo
- tegno
- tenggo
- tenngo
- tenog
- tnego
- ttengo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tengo - 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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).