cujovscultWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#1,638
“cujo” frequency rank
#21,706
“cult” frequency rank
23344
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature cujo cult
Definition relaciona dois substantivos, um antecedente e outro consequente, sendo este último possuidor de algo (qualidade, condição, sentimento, ser etc.) designado pelo primeiro; equivale a de que, de quem, do/da qual, dos/das quais culto

Letter map: cujo vs cult

Shared letters muted; letters that set cujo and cult apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch
cujo
4 ch
cult

Part-of-speech tell for cujo / cult

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: cujo is apronoun and cultanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 23344, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

cujo is recorded at frequency rank #1,638, classified as apron. cult is at rank #21,706, 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 23344, this pair ranks #46,494 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of cujo vs cult

Shared letters: cu. Private to "cujo": jo. Private to "cult": lt.

"cujo" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "cult" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • cujoccujo · cjuo · cujjo · cuoj · ucjo
  • cultccult · clut · cullt · cultt · cutl · uclt

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "cujo" for "cult" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "cujo" is a pronoun and "cult" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "cujo" or "cult"?
"cujo" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,638 in our Portuguese list, against #21,706 for "cult". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Pair "cujo" vs "cult" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "cujo" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "cult" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #46,494 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "cujo" and "cult" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "coat vs cult". 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 #46,494 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