tens
The verdict
“tens” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #2,447. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,447
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - segunda pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo ter
Corpus desk
Index PT-tens · tens · Portuguese
tens · rank #2,447 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,447
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH tendência
Nearest frequency peer: tendência (-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 “tens”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- tarefa
tarefa
97,557 corpus weight
- temperatura
temperatura
97,556 corpus weight
- tendência
tendência
97,555 corpus weight
- tens
tens
97,554 corpus weight
- terror
terror
97,553 corpus weight
- topo
topo
97,551 corpus weight
What this shows “tens” 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 | tens |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #2,447 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “tens”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around tens, averb. Corpus frequency is #2,447 among 917 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "segunda pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo ter".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for tens, with forms such as "etns", "tenns", and "tenss". 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, "ter", "teu", "três", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is tens, spelled T-E-N-S.
Definition
- 1segunda pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo ter
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etns
- tenns
- tenss
- tesn
- tnes
- ttens
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tens - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "tens", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).