Which to use
“house” is a noun and “houve” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #2,684
- “house” frequency rank
- #672
- “houve” frequency rank
- 3356
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | house | houve |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | casa | primeira pessoa do singular do pretérito perfeito do indicativo do verbo haver |
Letter map: house vs houve
Shared letters muted; letters that set house and houve apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. house and houve follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Part-of-speech tell for house / houve
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: house is anoun and houveaverb. On the page they differ by a single letter - s in “house” becomes v in “houve”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 3356, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
house is recorded at frequency rank #2,684, classified as anoun, pronounced /haʊs/. houve is at rank #672, tagged as averb.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 3356, this pair ranks #71,812 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of house vs houve
Shared letters: ehou. Private to "house": s. Private to "houve": v.
"house" · 5 letters · shape CVVCV · "houve" · 5 letters · shape CVVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "house" and "houve" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "house" vs "houve" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
Pair "house" vs "houve" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.
- Full dictionary entry for "house" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "houve" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #71,812 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "house" and "houve" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "house vs hush". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #71,812 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.