tênis
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,294
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
tênis is aPortuguesenoun. It means: desporto individual (ou de duplas) no qual os jogadores enviam um ao outro uma pequena bola, com ajuda de raquetes por sobre uma rede que divide a quadra de jogo Pronounced /ˈte.nis/. It ranks #3,294 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with tens and teria.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tênis |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈte.nis/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,294 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for tênis is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈte.nis/. Corpus data places it at rank #3,294 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 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 tênis, with forms such as "tnêis", "ttênis", and "têins". 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, "tens", "teria", "tento", 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 tênis, spelled T-Ê-N-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1desporto individual (ou de duplas) no qual os jogadores enviam um ao outro uma pequena bola, com ajuda de raquetes por sobre uma rede que divide a quadra de jogo
- 2calçado de uso amplamente difundido, surgido originalmente entre os praticantes do desporto
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: tnêis,ttênis,têins,têniss,tênnis,tênsi,êtnis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tênis
Misspelling Variants of "tênis"
Frequency rank: #3,294 in Portuguese
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