tese

//ˈtɛ.zi// noun

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,647

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

4

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

tese is aPortuguesenoun. It means: enunciado que é exposto em um debate e defendido, se refutado Pronounced /ˈtɛ.zi/. It ranks #3,647 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with the and teu.

Key facts for tese
PropertyValue
Headwordtese
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/ˈtɛ.zi/
Letters4
Frequency rank#3,647
Misspellings tracked4
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for tese is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈtɛ.zi/. Corpus data places it at rank #3,647 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for tese, with forms such as "tees", "tesse", and "tsee". 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, "the", "teu", "tre", 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 tese, spelled T-E-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    enunciado que é exposto em um debate e defendido, se refutado
  2. 2
    trabalho acadêmico escrito e inédito, fruto de pesquisa e com formato padronizado, com um orientador a dirigir a pesquisa, que é exposto para aprovação por uma junta avaliadora no ensino superior, via de regra pra obtenção de grau de mestre ou doutor e, ao final, publicado
  3. 3
    a obra que contém a essa publicação
  4. 4
    o conjunto das afirmações concluídas (ou seja, aquilo que efetivamente é provado) de um teorema
  5. 5
    conclusão feita após especulação ou conjecturas
  6. 6
    mote sobre o qual versa uma preleção
  7. 7
    para Immanuel Kant, uma das partes da antinomia, junto à antítese que se lhe contrapõe
  8. 8
    na proposição dialética de Hegel, primeira parte do método de análise de uma proposição a ser contraditada pela antítese e, após esse conflito, chegar-se a uma conclusão por meio da síntese que, por sua vez, pode dar início ao processo novamente
  9. 9
    antigamente, o papel de cetim no qual as teses eram impressas
  10. 10
    em metrificação latina, o mesmo que tésis

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: tees,tesse,tsee,ttese

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tese

Misspelling Variants of "tese"

tees4tesse5tsee4ttese5
Misspelling Variants of "tese"

Frequency rank: #3,647 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tese"?
"tese" is spelled T-E-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is /ˈtɛ.zi/.
What does "tese" mean?
As a noun, "tese" means: enunciado que é exposto em um debate e defendido, se refutado
What words are commonly confused with "tese"?
"tese" is commonly confused with "the", "teu", "tre". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "tese"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tese" is /ˈtɛ.zi/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tese" come from?
"tese" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.