teme vs temos, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#10,093
“teme” frequency rank: #292
“temos” frequency rank: 10385
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	teme	temos
Definition	anta; tapir, Tapirus terrestris	primeira pessoa do plural do presente do indicativo do verbo ter

Letter map: teme vs temos

Shared letters muted; letters that set teme and temos apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

4 ch

teme

5 ch

temos

Grammar separator: teme vs temos

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: teme is anoun and temosaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 10385, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

teme is recorded at frequency rank #10,093, classified as anoun, pronounced /ˈtɛ.mɛ/. temos is at rank #292, 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 10385, this pair ranks #62,739 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of teme vs temos

Shared letters: emt. Private to "teme": -. Private to "temos": os.

"teme" · 4 letters · shape CVCV · "temos" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

teme ← etme · temme · tmee · tteme
temos ← etmos · temmos · temoss · temso · teoms · tmeos · ttemos

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "teme" and "temos" mean the same thing in a sentence?

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

Which is more common, "teme" or "temos"?

"temos" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #292 in our Portuguese list, against #10,093 for "teme". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

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Full dictionary entry for "teme" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "temos" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #62,739 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"teme" and "temos" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "teme vs trema". 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 #62,739 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.