tivessem

verb

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,434

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

5

similar word pairs

tivessem is aPortugueseverb. It means: terceira pessoa do plural do pretérito imperfeito do modo subjuntivo do verbo ter It ranks #4,434 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with tiveste and tivesses.

Key facts for tivessem
PropertyValue
Headwordtivessem
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechVerb
Letters8
Frequency rank#4,434
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for tivessem is 8 letters long, classified as averb. Corpus data places it at rank #4,434 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "terceira pessoa do plural do pretérito imperfeito do modo subjuntivo do verbo ter".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for tivessem, with forms such as "itvessem", "tievssem", and "tivesem". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "tiveste", "tivesses", "tivéssemos", 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 tivessem, spelled T-I-V-E-S-S-E-M, 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 plural do pretérito imperfeito do modo subjuntivo do verbo ter

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: itvessem,tievssem,tivesem,tivesesm,tivessemm,tivessme,tivsesem,tivvessem,ttivessem,tviessem

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tivessem

Misspelling Variants of "tivessem"

itvessem8tievssem8tivesem7tivesesm8tivessemm9tivessme8tivsesem8tivvessem9
Misspelling Variants of "tivessem"

Frequency rank: #4,434 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tivessem"?
"tivessem" is spelled T-I-V-E-S-S-E-M.
What does "tivessem" mean?
As a verb, "tivessem" means: terceira pessoa do plural do pretérito imperfeito do modo subjuntivo do verbo ter
What words are commonly confused with "tivessem"?
"tivessem" is commonly confused with "tiveste", "tivesses", "tivéssemos". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "tivessem" come from?
"tivessem" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.