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“tivera” and “tiveram” are a confusable Portuguese pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#35,373
“tivera” frequency rank
#1,202
“tiveram” frequency rank
36575
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature tivera tiveram
Definition primeira pessoa do singular do pretérito mais-que-perfeito do indicativo do verbo ter terceira pessoa do plural do pretérito perfeito do indicativo do verbo ter

Letter map: tivera vs tiveram

Shared letters muted; letters that set tivera and tiveram apart highlighted. Shared run: 6. tivera runs 6 letters (CVCVCV) against tiveram's 7 (CVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
tivera
7 ch
tiveram

Pair insight - tivera / tiveram

tivera and tiveram are indexed as a confusable Portuguese pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “tivera” sits inside “tiveram”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 36575, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

tivera is recorded at frequency rank #35,373, classified as averb. tiveram is at rank #1,202, 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 36575, this pair ranks #30,181 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of tivera vs tiveram

Shared letters: aeirtv. Private to "tivera": -. Private to "tiveram": m.

"tivera" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV  ·  "tiveram" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • tivera ← itvera · tievra · tivear · tiverra · tivrea · tivvera · ttivera · tviera
  • tiveram ← itveram · tievram · tivearm · tiveramm · tiverma · tiverram · tivream · tivveram

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "tivera" and "tiveram" be used interchangeably?
No. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “tivera” sits inside “tiveram”, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Which is more common, "tivera" or "tiveram"?
"tiveram" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,202 in our Portuguese list, against #35,373 for "tivera". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

You've compared "tivera" and "tiveram". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "tivera" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "tiveram" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #30,181 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "tivera" and "tiveram" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "tivera vs tiveres". 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 #30,181 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