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“teco” and “terça” are a confusable Portuguese pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#43,185
“teco” frequency rank
#1,592
“terça” frequency rank
44777
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature teco terça
Definition tiro de arma de fogo estrofe que contém três versos

Letter map: teco vs terça

Shared letters muted; letters that set teco and terça apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. teco runs 4 letters (CVCV) against terça's 5 (CVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
teco
5 ch
terça

Pair insight - teco / terça

teco and terça are indexed as a confusable Portuguese pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 44777, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

teco is recorded at frequency rank #43,185, classified as anoun. terça is at rank #1,592, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˈteɾ.sɐ/.

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 44777, this pair ranks #20,655 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of teco vs terça

Shared letters: et. Private to "teco": co. Private to "terça": arç.

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

Known mistypes of this pair

  • teco ← etco · tceo · tecco · teoc · tteco

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "teco" and "terça" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Frequency check: "teco" vs "terça" - which ranks higher?
"terça" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,592 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.

After this comparison

You've compared "teco" and "terça". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "teco" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "terça" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #20,655 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "teco" and "terça" 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 #20,655 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list