conduto vs contudo, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“conduto” is a noun and “contudo” is a conjunction - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#38,190
“conduto” frequency rank: #1,275
“contudo” frequency rank: 39465
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	conduto	contudo
Definition	canal por onde escoam líquidos ou gases	mas, todavia, não obstante, no entanto

Where the spellings diverge

Shared letters are muted; the letters that actually set conduto and contudo apart are highlighted. They share 5 letters in sequence, which is exactly why the eye skips the difference.

7 ch

conduto

7 ch

contudo

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: conduto is /kõ.ˈdu.tu/ while contudo is /kõ.ˈtu.du/. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they are an anagram pair: the same letters reordered, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs conjunction), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 39465, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

conduto is recorded at frequency rank #38,190, classified as anoun, pronounced /kõ.ˈdu.tu/. contudo is at rank #1,275, tagged as aconj, pronounced /kõ.ˈtu.du/.

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 39465, this pair ranks #26,771 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of conduto vs contudo

Shared letters: cdnotu. Private to "conduto": -. Private to "contudo": -.

"conduto" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCV · "contudo" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

conduto ← cconduto · cnoduto · codnuto · condduto · condtuo · conduot · condutto · connduto
contudo ← ccontudo · cnotudo · conntudo · contduo · conttudo · contuddo · contuod · conutdo

Frequency comparison

conduto#38,190

contudo#1,275

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "conduto" and "contudo" be used interchangeably?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "conduto" is a noun and "contudo" a conjunction, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Which is more common, "conduto" or "contudo"?

"contudo" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,275 in our Portuguese list, against #38,190 for "conduto". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Remembering conduto vs contudo

The fastest way to pick the right one every time.

Check the role first: if you need a noun, it's “conduto”; for a conjunction, it's “contudo”.
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