tomou
/to.ˈmow/, /to.ˈmo/
The verdict
“tomou” is a regularly-used Portuguese word, ranked #2,120 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a verb.
- #2,120
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 5
- letters
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - terceira pessoa do singular do pretérito perfeito do indicativo do verbo tomar
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 | tomou |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /to.ˈmow/, /to.ˈmo/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,120 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tomou” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for tomou is 5 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /to.ˈmow/, /to.ˈmo/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,120 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "terceira pessoa do singular do pretérito perfeito do indicativo do verbo tomar".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for tomou, with forms such as "otmou", "tmoou", and "tommou". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "topo", "toro", "tool", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is tomou, spelled T-O-M-O-U.
Definition
- 1terceira pessoa do singular do pretérito perfeito do indicativo do verbo tomar
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: otmou,tmoou,tommou,tomuo,toomu,ttomou
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tomou - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 “tomou”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is T-O-M-O-U - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /to.ˈmow/, /to.ˈmo/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “topo” - see the side-by-side comparison. tomou vs topo
- 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.