damovsdigoWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: damo is a noun, digo is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“damo” is a noun and “digo” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#48,855
“damo” frequency rank
#1,331
“digo” frequency rank
50186
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature damo digo
Definition dama, rainha primeira pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo dizer

Where the eye mixes damo and digo

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence.

4 ch
damo
4 ch
digo

Look-alike desk: damo vs digo

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: damo is /ˈda.mɔ/ while digo is /ˈʤi.gʊ/. 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 (noun vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 50186, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

damo is recorded at frequency rank #48,855, classified as anoun, pronounced /ˈda.mɔ/. digo is at rank #1,331, tagged as averb, pronounced /ˈʤi.gʊ/.

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 50186, this pair ranks #14,800 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of damo vs digo

Shared letters: do. Private to "damo": am. Private to "digo": gi.

"damo" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "digo" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • damoadmo · dammo · daom · ddamo · dmao
  • digoddigo · dgio · diggo · diog · idgo

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "damo" for "digo" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "damo" is a noun and "digo" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "damo" vs "digo" - which ranks higher?
"digo" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,331 in our Portuguese list, against #48,855 for "damo". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Eye-level mix-up between "damo" and "digo" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "damo" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "digo" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #14,800 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "damo" and "digo" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "damo vs dat". 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 #14,800 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