tens

verb

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,447

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

6

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

tens is aPortugueseverb. It means: segunda pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo ter It ranks #2,447 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with ter and teu.

Key facts for tens
PropertyValue
Headwordtens
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechVerb
Letters4
Frequency rank#2,447
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of tens in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for tens is 4 letters long, classified as averb. Corpus data places it at rank #2,447 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "segunda pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo ter".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for tens, with forms such as "etns", "tenns", and "tenss". 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, "ter", "teu", "três", 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 tens, spelled T-E-N-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    segunda pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo ter

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: etns,tenns,tenss,tesn,tnes,ttens

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tens

Misspelling Variants of "tens"

etns4tenns5tenss5tesn4tnes4ttens5
Misspelling Variants of "tens"

Frequency rank: #2,447 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tens"?
"tens" is spelled T-E-N-S.
What does "tens" mean?
As a verb, "tens" means: segunda pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo ter
What words are commonly confused with "tens"?
"tens" is commonly confused with "ter", "teu", "três". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "tens" come from?
"tens" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter T in our Portuguese index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.