testevstheseConfusable pair

Quick tell: teste is a adjective, these is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“teste” is an adjective and “these” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#1,412
“teste” frequency rank
#18,727
“these” frequency rank
20139
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature teste these
Definition que é feito em caráter preliminar, para testar ou servir como protótipo vide tese

Letter map: teste vs these

Shared letters muted; letters that set teste and these apart highlighted. Shared run: 4.

5 ch
teste
5 ch
these

Part-of-speech tell for teste / these

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: teste is anadjective and theseanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 20139, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

teste is recorded at frequency rank #1,412, classified as anadj. these is at rank #18,727, tagged as anoun.

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 20139, this pair ranks #50,455 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of teste vs these

Shared letters: est. Private to "teste": -. Private to "these": h.

"teste" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "these" · 5 letters · shape CCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • testeetste · teset · tesste · testte · tetse · tsete · tteste
  • thesehtese · tehse · thees · thesse · thhese · thsee · tthese

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "teste" for "these" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "teste" is an adjective and "these" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "teste" vs "these" - which ranks higher?
"teste" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,412 in our Portuguese list, against #18,727 for "these". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

You've compared "teste" and "these". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "teste" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "these" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #50,455 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "teste" and "these" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "tee vs these". 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 #50,455 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