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

#44,191
“aipo” frequency rank
#2,262
“avião” frequency rank
46453
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature aipo avião
Definition planta herbácea odorífena da família das Umbelíferas cultivada para fins culinários; seu nome científico é Apium graveolens aparelho mais pesado que o ar empregado em navegação aérea

Letter map: aipo vs avião

Shared letters muted; letters that set aipo and avião apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. aipo runs 4 letters (VVCV) against avião's 5 (VCVVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
aipo
5 ch
avião

Spelling & dictionary notes on aipo vs avião

aipo and avião 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 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 46453, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

aipo is recorded at frequency rank #44,191, classified as anoun, pronounced /ˈaj.pu/. avião is at rank #2,262, 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 46453, this pair ranks #18,845 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of aipo vs avião

Shared letters: aio. Private to "aipo": p. Private to "avião": vã.

"aipo" · 4 letters · shape VVCV  ·  "avião" · 5 letters · shape VCVVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • aipo ← aiop · aippo · apio · iapo

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "aipo" and "avião" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Which is more common, "aipo" or "avião"?
"avião" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,262 in our Portuguese list, against #44,191 for "aipo". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "aipo" and "avião".

  • Full dictionary entry for "aipo" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "avião" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #18,845 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "aipo" and "avião" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "aipo vs apo". 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 #18,845 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