te vs tua, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“te” is a pronoun and “tua” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#59
“te” frequency rank: #662
“tua” frequency rank: 721
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	te	tua
Definition	a ti	que tem você como objeto

Letter map: te vs tua

Shared letters muted; letters that set te and tua apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

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tua

Part-of-speech tell for te / tua

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: te is apronoun and tuaanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 721, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

te is recorded at frequency rank #59, classified as apron, pronounced /tɨ/. tua is at rank #662, tagged as anadj.

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 721, this pair ranks #74,927 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of te vs tua

Shared letters: t. Private to "te": e. Private to "tua": au.

"te" · 2 letters · shape CV · "tua" · 3 letters · shape CVV

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "te" for "tua" ever safe?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "te" is a pronoun and "tua" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Which is more common, "te" or "tua"?

"te" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #59 in our Portuguese list, against #662 for "tua". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "te" and "tua".

Full dictionary entry for "te" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "tua" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #74,927 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"te" and "tua" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "tua vs tufo". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #74,927 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.