teco vs tenho, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“teco” is a noun and “tenho” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#43,185
“teco” frequency rank: #90
“tenho” frequency rank: 43275
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	teco	tenho
Definition	tiro de arma de fogo	primeira pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo ter

Letter map: teco vs tenho

Shared letters muted; letters that set teco and tenho apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. teco runs 4 letters (CVCV) against tenho's 5 (CVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch

teco

5 ch

tenho

Role in the sentence - teco and tenho

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: teco is anoun and tenhoaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 43275, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

teco is recorded at frequency rank #43,185, classified as anoun. tenho is at rank #90, 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 43275, this pair ranks #22,380 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of teco vs tenho

Shared letters: eot. Private to "teco": c. Private to "tenho": hn.

"teco" · 4 letters · shape CVCV · "tenho" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

teco ← etco · tceo · tecco · teoc · tteco
tenho ← etnho · tehno · tenhho · tennho · tenoh · tneho · ttenho

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "teco" and "tenho" be used interchangeably?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "teco" is a noun and "tenho" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Frequency check: "teco" vs "tenho" - which ranks higher?

"tenho" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #90 in our Portuguese list, against #43,185 for "teco". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

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Full dictionary entry for "teco" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "tenho" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #22,380 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"teco" and "tenho" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "teco vs tufo". 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 #22,380 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.