adovsaudioWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: ado is a noun, audio is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#31,628
“ado” frequency rank
#10,138
“audio” frequency rank
41766
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature ado audio
Definition a fazer ouvir, escutar.

Letter map: ado vs audio

Shared letters muted; letters that set ado and audio apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

3 ch
ado
5 ch
audio

Grammar separator: ado vs audio

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: ado is anoun and audioaverb. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 41766, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

ado is recorded at frequency rank #31,628, classified as anoun. audio is at rank #10,138, tagged as averb, pronounced /ˈau.di.oː/.

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 41766, this pair ranks #24,107 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of ado vs audio

Shared letters: ado. Private to "ado": -. Private to "audio": iu.

"ado" · 3 letters · shape VCV  ·  "audio" · 5 letters · shape VVCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • audioaduio · auddio · audoi · auido · uadio

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "ado" and "audio" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "ado" is a noun and "audio" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "ado" vs "audio" - which ranks higher?
"audio" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #10,138 in our Portuguese list, against #31,628 for "ado". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "ado" and "audio". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "ado" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "audio" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #24,107 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "ado" and "audio" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "acs vs ado". 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 #24,107 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