thosevstoméTell them apart

Quick tell: those is a pronoun, tomé is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“those” is a pronoun and “tomé” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#25,840
“those” frequency rank
#4,602
“tomé” frequency rank
30442
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature those tomé
Definition plural de "that": esses, essas; aqueles, aquelas primeira pessoa do singular no pretérito do indicativo do verbo tomar; tomei

Letter map: those vs tomé

Shared letters muted; letters that set those and tomé apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. those runs 5 letters (CCVCV) against tomé's 4 (CVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
those
4 ch
tomé

Part-of-speech tell for those / tomé

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: those is apronoun and toméaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 30442, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

those is recorded at frequency rank #25,840, classified as apron, pronounced /ðoʊz/. tomé is at rank #4,602, 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 30442, this pair ranks #37,907 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of those vs tomé

Shared letters: ot. Private to "those": ehs. Private to "tomé": mé.

"those" · 5 letters · shape CCVCV  ·  "tomé" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • those ← htose · thhose · thoes · thosse · thsoe · tohse · tthose

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "those" and "tomé" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "those" is a pronoun and "tomé" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "those" or "tomé"?
"tomé" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #4,602 in our Portuguese list, against #25,840 for "those". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "those" and "tomé".

  • Full dictionary entry for "those" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "tomé" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #37,907 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "those" and "tomé" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "those vs tosa". 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 #37,907 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