teco vs tocou, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#43,185
“teco” frequency rank: #4,025
“tocou” frequency rank: 47210
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	teco	tocou
Definition	tiro de arma de fogo	terceira pessoa do singular do pretérito perfeito do indicativo do verbo tocar

Letter map: teco vs tocou

Shared letters muted; letters that set teco and tocou apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

4 ch

teco

5 ch

tocou

Grammar separator: teco vs tocou

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: teco is anoun and tocouaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 47210, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

teco is recorded at frequency rank #43,185, classified as anoun. tocou is at rank #4,025, tagged as averb, pronounced /to.ˈko/.

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 47210, this pair ranks #18,062 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of teco vs tocou

Shared letters: cot. Private to "teco": e. Private to "tocou": u.

"teco" · 4 letters · shape CVCV · "tocou" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

teco ← etco · tceo · tecco · teoc · tteco
tocou ← otcou · tcoou · toccou · tocuo · toocu · ttocou

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "teco" and "tocou" mean the same thing in a sentence?

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

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

"tocou" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #4,025 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.

Useful next steps

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Full dictionary entry for "teco" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "tocou" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #18,062 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"teco" and "tocou" 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 #18,062 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.