com vs comeu, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“com” is a preposition and “comeu” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#14
“com” frequency rank: #5,395
“comeu” frequency rank: 5409
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	com	comeu
Definition	indica várias relações: companhia, causa, instrumento, ligação, modo, oposição	terceira pessoa do singular do pretérito perfeito do indicativo do verbo comer

Letter map: com vs comeu

Shared letters muted; letters that set com and comeu apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

3 ch

com

5 ch

comeu

Part-of-speech tell for com / comeu

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: com is apreposition and comeuaverb. On the page they differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “com” sits inside “comeu”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 5409, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

com is recorded at frequency rank #14, classified as aprep, pronounced /kõ/. comeu is at rank #5,395, tagged as averb.

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 5409, this pair ranks #69,211 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of com vs comeu

Shared letters: cmo. Private to "com": -. Private to "comeu": eu.

"com" · 3 letters · shape CVC · "comeu" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

comeu ← ccomeu · cmoeu · coemu · commeu · comue · ocmeu

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "com" and "comeu" be used interchangeably?

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

Which is more common, "com" or "comeu"?

"com" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #14 in our Portuguese list, against #5,395 for "comeu". 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 "com" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "comeu" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #69,211 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"com" and "comeu" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "codex vs comeu". 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 #69,211 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.