cento vs coito, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#2,620
“cento” frequency rank: #38,629
“coito” frequency rank: 41249
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	cento	coito
Definition	conjunto de cem unidades de alguma coisa	cozido

Letter map: cento vs coito

Shared letters muted; letters that set cento and coito apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. cento (CVCCV) and coito (CVVCV) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

5 ch

cento

5 ch

coito

Grammar separator: cento vs coito

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: cento is anoun and coitoanadjective. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 41249, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

cento is recorded at frequency rank #2,620, classified as anoun. coito is at rank #38,629, tagged as anadj, pronounced /ˈkoj.tu/.

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 41249, this pair ranks #24,709 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of cento vs coito

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

"cento" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV · "coito" · 5 letters · shape CVVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

cento ← ccento · cennto · cenot · centto · cetno · cneto · ecnto
coito ← ccoito · cioto · coiot · coitto · cotio · ocito

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "cento" for "coito" ever safe?

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

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

"cento" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,620 in our Portuguese list, against #38,629 for "coito". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

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Full dictionary entry for "cento" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "coito" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #24,709 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"cento" and "coito" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "ciao vs coito". 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 #24,709 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.