teve

verb

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#293

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

5

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

teve is aPortugueseverb. It means: terceira pessoa do singular do pretérito perfeito do verbo ter It ranks #293 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with the and tre.

Key facts for teve
PropertyValue
Headwordteve
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechVerb
Letters4
Frequency rank#293
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for teve is 4 letters long, classified as averb. Corpus data places it at rank #293 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "terceira pessoa do singular do pretérito perfeito do verbo ter".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for teve, with forms such as "etve", "teev", and "tevve". 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", "tre", "tie", 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 teve, spelled T-E-V-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    terceira pessoa do singular do pretérito perfeito do verbo ter

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: etve,teev,tevve,tteve,tvee

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for teve

Misspelling Variants of "teve"

etve4teev4tevve5tteve5tvee4
Misspelling Variants of "teve"

Frequency rank: #293 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "teve"?
"teve" is spelled T-E-V-E.
What does "teve" mean?
As a verb, "teve" means: terceira pessoa do singular do pretérito perfeito do verbo ter
What words are commonly confused with "teve"?
"teve" is commonly confused with "the", "tre", "tie". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "teve" come from?
"teve" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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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.