tento
The verdict
“tento” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #4,187. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,187
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - este / esta / isto
Corpus desk
Index PT-tento · tento · Portuguese
tento · rank #4,187 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,187
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH Tag
Nearest frequency peer: Tag (-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 “tento”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- Simon
Simon
95,819 corpus weight
- sintomas
sintomas
95,818 corpus weight
- suave
suave
95,817 corpus weight
- suspensão
suspensão
95,816 corpus weight
- Tag
Tag
95,815 corpus weight
- tento
tento
95,814 corpus weight
What this shows “tento” 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 | tento |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #4,187 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “tento”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around tento, apronoun. Corpus frequency is #4,187 among 917 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "este / esta / isto".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for tento, with forms such as "etnto", "tennto", and "tenot". 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, "tino", "teta", "totó", 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is tento, spelled T-E-N-T-O.
Definition
- 1este / esta / isto
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tento appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tento dům je prázdný.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etnto
- tennto
- tenot
- tentto
- tetno
- tneto
- ttento
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tento - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "tento", 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).