tenho
The verdict
“tenho” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #90. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #90
- 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 ter
Corpus desk
Index PT-tenho · tenho · Portuguese
tenho · rank #90 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #90
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH casa
Nearest frequency peer: casa (+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 “tenho”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- essa
essa
99,915 corpus weight
- há
há
99,913 corpus weight
- tenho
tenho
99,911 corpus weight
- casa
casa
99,910 corpus weight
- nada
nada
99,909 corpus weight
- the
the
99,908 corpus weight
What this shows “tenho” 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 | tenho |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #90 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “tenho”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around tenho, averb. Corpus frequency is #90 among 917 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "primeira pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo ter".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for tenho, with forms such as "etnho", "tehno", and "tenhho". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tens", "tino", "tinha", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is tenho, spelled T-E-N-H-O.
Definition
- 1primeira pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo ter
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tenho appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Se é justa a justa Lei que sigo e tenho!
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etnho
- tehno
- tenhho
- tennho
- tenoh
- tneho
- ttenho
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tenho - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tenho", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).