terei
The verdict
“terei” is a regularly-used Portuguese word, ranked #6,816 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a verb.
- #6,816
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 5
- letters
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - primeira pessoa do singular do futuro do indicativo do verbo ter
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 | terei |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #6,816 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “terei” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for terei is 5 letters long, classified as a verb. Corpus data places it at rank #6,816 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "primeira pessoa do singular do futuro do indicativo do verbo ter".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for terei, with forms such as "etrei", "teeri", and "terie". 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, "tre", "tri", "três", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is terei, spelled T-E-R-E-I.
Definition
- 1primeira pessoa do singular do futuro do indicativo do verbo ter
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: etrei,teeri,terie,terrei,treei,tterei
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of terei - 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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Using “terei”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is T-E-R-E-I - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “tre” - see the side-by-side comparison. terei vs tre
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.