culto vs custom, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“culto” is an adjective and “custom” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#4,717
“culto” frequency rank: #27,822
“custom” frequency rank: 32539
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	culto	custom
Definition	que se cultivou	costume, hábito

Letter map: culto vs custom

Shared letters muted; letters that set culto and custom apart highlighted. Shared run: 4.

5 ch

culto

6 ch

custom

Part-of-speech tell for culto / custom

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: culto is anadjective and customanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 32539, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

culto is recorded at frequency rank #4,717, classified as anadj. custom is at rank #27,822, tagged as anoun, pronounced /kʌstəm/.

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 32539, this pair ranks #35,235 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of culto vs custom

Shared letters: cotu. Private to "culto": l. Private to "custom": ms.

"culto" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV · "custom" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

culto ← cculto · cluto · cullto · culot · cultto · cutlo · uclto
custom ← ccustom · csutom · cusotm · cusstom · custmo · customm · custtom · cutsom

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "culto" and "custom" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "culto" is an adjective and "custom" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Which is more common, "culto" or "custom"?

"culto" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #4,717 in our Portuguese list, against #27,822 for "custom". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "culto" and "custom".

Full dictionary entry for "culto" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "custom" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #35,235 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"culto" and "custom" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "cisto vs custom". 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 #35,235 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.