comigovscomitéWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: comigo is a pronoun, comité is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“comigo” is a pronoun and “comité” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#304
“comigo” frequency rank
#8,738
“comité” frequency rank
9042
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature comigo comité
Definition em minha companhia, com a minha pessoa; equivalente a com mim reunião de membros escolhidos numa assembleia

Where the eye mixes comigo and comité

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence.

6 ch
comigo
6 ch
comité

Look-alike desk: comigo vs comité

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: comigo is /ko.ˈmi.ɡo̝/ while comité is /ku.mi.ˈtɛ/. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (pronoun vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 9042, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

comigo is recorded at frequency rank #304, classified as apron, pronounced /ko.ˈmi.ɡo̝/. comité is at rank #8,738, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ku.mi.ˈtɛ/.

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 9042, this pair ranks #64,526 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of comigo vs comité

Shared letters: cimo. Private to "comigo": g. Private to "comité": .

"comigo" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV  ·  "comité" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • comigoccomigo · cmoigo · coimgo · comgio · comiggo · comiog · commigo · ocmigo

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "comigo" and "comité" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "comigo" is a pronoun and "comité" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "comigo" or "comité" show up more?
"comigo" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #304 in our Portuguese list, against #8,738 for "comité". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.

  • Full dictionary entry for "comigo" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "comité" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #64,526 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "comigo" and "comité" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "coice vs comité". 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 #64,526 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