tenha
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#369
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
tenha is aPortugueseverb. It means: primeira pessoa do singular do presente do conjuntivo do verbo ter It ranks #369 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with tha and terá.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for tenha is 5 letters long, classified as averb. Corpus data places it at rank #369 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for tenha, with forms such as "etnha", "tehna", and "tenah". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.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 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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is tenha, spelled T-E-N-H-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: etnha,tehna,tenah,tenhha,tennha,tneha,ttenha
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tenha
Misspelling Variants of "tenha"
Frequency rank: #369 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter T in our Portuguese index: