# ten vs teve

> Portuguese confusable word pair

## The two words

### ten
*pronoun · frequency rank #10,094*
este, esta, esse, essa

### teve
*verb · frequency rank #293*
terceira pessoa do singular do pretérito perfeito do verbo ter

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-09-03.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/pt/vs/ten-vs-teve