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Which to use

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

#12,012
“chore” frequency rank
#12,025
“cone” frequency rank
24037
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature chore cone
Definition tarefa, especialmente uma difícil, desagradável, ou de rotina fruto produzido pela conífera

Where the eye mixes chore and cone

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence.

5 ch
chore
4 ch
cone

Look-alike desk: chore vs cone

A purely visual mix-up. chore (/tʃɔː/) and cone (/ˈkɔ.nɨ/) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 24037, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

chore is recorded at frequency rank #12,012, classified as anoun, pronounced /tʃɔː/. cone is at rank #12,025, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˈkɔ.nɨ/.

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 24037, this pair ranks #45,669 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of chore vs cone

Shared letters: ceo. Private to "chore": hr. Private to "cone": n.

"chore" · 5 letters · shape CCVCV  ·  "cone" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • chorecchore · chhore · choer · chorre · chroe · cohre · hcore
  • coneccone · cnoe · coen · conne · ocne

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "chore" for "cone" ever safe?
No. They are said differently (/tʃɔː/ versus /ˈkɔ.nɨ/) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "chore" or "cone" show up more?
"chore" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #12,012 in our Portuguese list, against #12,025 for "cone". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Eye-level mix-up between "chore" and "cone" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "chore" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "cone" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #45,669 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "chore" and "cone" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "codex vs cone". 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 #45,669 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