cento vs cito, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#2,620
“cento” frequency rank: #25,237
“cito” frequency rank: 27857
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	cento	cito
Definition	conjunto de cem unidades de alguma coisa	fazer mover-se, excitar.

Letter map: cento vs cito

Shared letters muted; letters that set cento and cito apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

5 ch

cento

4 ch

cito

Role in the sentence - cento and cito

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: cento is anoun and citoaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 27857, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

cento is recorded at frequency rank #2,620, classified as anoun. cito is at rank #25,237, tagged as averb, pronounced /ˈki.toː/.

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 27857, this pair ranks #41,058 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of cento vs cito

Shared letters: cot. Private to "cento": en. Private to "cito": i.

"cento" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV · "cito" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

cento ← ccento · cennto · cenot · centto · cetno · cneto · ecnto
cito ← ccito · ciot · citto · ctio · icto

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "cento" and "cito" be used interchangeably?

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

Which is more common, "cento" or "cito"?

"cento" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,620 in our Portuguese list, against #25,237 for "cito". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

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Full dictionary entry for "cento" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "cito" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #41,058 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"cento" and "cito" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "ciao vs cito". 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 #41,058 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.