tenhais

verb

The verdict

“tenhais” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #57,033 among 917 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#57,033
frequency rank, Portuguese
917
“T” headwords

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

Corpus desk

Index PT-tenhais · tenhais · Portuguese

tenhais · rank #57,033 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #57,033
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 917
  • PHOTO-FINISH temperança

Nearest frequency peer: temperança (-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.

Ranks da cauda longa perto de “tenhais”

Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto

corpus weight

What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “tenhais” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for tenhais
PropertyValue
Headwordtenhais
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechVerb
Letters7
Frequency rank#57,033
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “tenhais” em português

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

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

A escala é logarítmica (cada marca ≈ 10× mais rara). Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “temperança” (#57,031), “tacitamente” (#57,028), “sálvia” (#57,027). Entre 917 lemas com “T”, “tenhais” fica em #57,033. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

tenhais is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #57,033 among 917 “T” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "segunda pessoa do plural do presente do conjuntivo do verbo ter".

tenhais doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is tenhais, spelled T-E-N-H-A-I-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    segunda pessoa do plural do presente do conjuntivo do verbo ter

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how tenhais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. que vós tenhais

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 "tenhais"?
"tenhais" is spelled T-E-N-H-A-I-S.
What does "tenhais" mean?
As a verb, "tenhais" means: segunda pessoa do plural do presente do conjuntivo do verbo ter
What language does "tenhais" come from?
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list