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

#44,265
“Ceres” frequency rank
#2,088
“cores” frequency rank
46353
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Ceres cores
Definition deusa romana da agricultura, equivalente à deusa grega Deméter maneira como realmente se é em relação as íntimas intenções ou ao comportamento espontâneo e natural quanto àquilo que é exteriorado pela atitude ao olhar alheio

Letter map: Ceres vs cores

Shared letters muted; letters that set Ceres and cores apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. Ceres and cores follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

5 ch
Ceres
5 ch
cores

Spelling & dictionary notes on Ceres vs cores

Ceres and cores 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 a single letter - e in “Ceres” becomes o in “cores”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 46353, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Ceres is recorded at frequency rank #44,265, classified as anoun, pronounced /ˈsɛ.ɾis/. cores is at rank #2,088, 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 46353, this pair ranks #18,963 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of Ceres vs cores

Shared letters: cers. Private to "Ceres": -. Private to "cores": o.

"Ceres" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC  ·  "cores" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Ceres ← cceres · ceers · ceress · cerres · cerse · crees · ecres
  • cores ← ccores · coers · coress · corres · corse · croes · ocres

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Ceres" for "cores" ever safe?
No. They differ by a single letter - e in “Ceres” becomes o in “cores”, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Which is more common, "Ceres" or "cores"?
"cores" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,088 in our Portuguese list, against #44,265 for "Ceres". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Pair "Ceres" vs "cores" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Ceres" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "cores" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #18,963 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Ceres" and "cores" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "cerda vs Ceres". 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 #18,963 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