tien

//tin/ ouvir^(fonte ?)/ num

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#64,531

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

tien is aPortuguesenum. It means: o número dez Pronounced /tin/ ouvir^(fonte ?).

Key facts for tien
PropertyValue
Headwordtien
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNum
IPA/tin/ ouvir^(fonte ?)
Letters4
Frequency rank#64,531
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for tien is 4 letters long, classified as anum, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /tin/ ouvir^(fonte ?). Corpus data places it at rank #64,531 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "o número dez".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for tien in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 tien, spelled T-I-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    o número dez

Frequency rank: #64,531 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tien"?
"tien" is spelled T-I-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is /tin/ ouvir^(fonte ?).
What does "tien" mean?
As a num, "tien" means: o número dez
How do you pronounce "tien"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tien" is /tin/ ouvir^(fonte ?). Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tien" come from?
"tien" 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.