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Which to use

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

#22,250
“cerro” frequency rank
#363
“corpo” frequency rank
22613
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature cerro corpo
Definition elevação no terreno formando um monte pequeno e com penhasco a parte material de um ser animado

Letter map: cerro vs corpo

Shared letters muted; letters that set cerro and corpo apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. cerro and corpo follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

5 ch
cerro
5 ch
corpo

Spelling & dictionary notes on cerro vs corpo

cerro and corpo 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 share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 22613, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

cerro is recorded at frequency rank #22,250, classified as anoun, pronounced /ˈse.ʁu/ [ˈse.hu]. corpo is at rank #363, 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 22613, this pair ranks #47,395 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of cerro vs corpo

Shared letters: cor. Private to "cerro": e. Private to "corpo": p.

"cerro" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "corpo" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • cerro ← ccerro · cero · ceror · crero · ecrro
  • corpo ← ccorpo · copro · corop · corppo · corrpo · cropo · ocrpo

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "cerro" for "corpo" ever safe?
No. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "cerro" or "corpo" show up more?
"corpo" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #363 in our Portuguese list, against #22,250 for "cerro". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Pair "cerro" vs "corpo" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "cerro" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "corpo" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #47,395 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "cerro" and "corpo" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "cerda vs cerro". 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 #47,395 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