teve vs these, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#293
“teve” frequency rank: #18,727
“these” frequency rank: 19020
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	teve	these
Definition	terceira pessoa do singular do pretérito perfeito do verbo ter	vide tese

Letter map: teve vs these

Shared letters muted; letters that set teve and these apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

4 ch

teve

5 ch

these

Part-of-speech tell for teve / these

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: teve is averb and theseanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 19020, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

teve is recorded at frequency rank #293, classified as averb. 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 19020, this pair ranks #51,838 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of teve vs these

Shared letters: et. Private to "teve": v. Private to "these": hs.

"teve" · 4 letters · shape CVCV · "these" · 5 letters · shape CCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

teve ← etve · teev · tevve · tteve · tvee
these ← htese · tehse · thees · thesse · thhese · thsee · tthese

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "teve" and "these" mean the same thing in a sentence?

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

In ordinary Portuguese text, does "teve" or "these" show up more?

"teve" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #293 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.

What to do next

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "teve" and "these".

Full dictionary entry for "teve" 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 #51,838 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"teve" 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 #51,838 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.