tenha
The verdict
“tenha” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #369. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #369
- 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 conjuntivo do verbo ter
Corpus desk
Index PT-tenha · tenha · Portuguese
tenha · rank #369 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #369
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH realmente
Nearest frequency peer: realmente (-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 “tenha”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- fui
fui
99,636 corpus weight
- meses
meses
99,635 corpus weight
- realmente
realmente
99,633 corpus weight
- tenha
tenha
99,632 corpus weight
- algum
algum
99,630 corpus weight
- C
C
99,629 corpus weight
What this shows “tenha” 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 | tenha |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #369 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “tenha”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around tenha, averb. Corpus frequency is #369 among 917 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for tenha, with forms such as "etnha", "tehna", and "tenah". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tha", "terá", "tens", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is tenha, spelled T-E-N-H-A.
Definition
- 1primeira pessoa do singular do presente do conjuntivo do verbo ter
- 2terceira pessoa do singular do presente do conjuntivo do verbo ter
- 3terceira pessoa do singular do imperativo do verbo ter
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tenha appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
que eu tenha
que ele/ ela/ você tenha
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etnha
- tehna
- tenah
- tenhha
- tennha
- tneha
- ttenha
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tenha - 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).