entrevsentregoWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: entre is a preposition, entrego is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“entre” is a preposition and “entrego” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#71
“entre” frequency rank
#16,508
“entrego” frequency rank
16579
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature entre entrego
Definition designa relação de situação em meio de, ou de situação no espaço que separa inteiro, completo, íntegro

Letter map: entre vs entrego

Shared letters muted; letters that set entre and entrego apart highlighted. Shared run: 5. entre runs 5 letters (VCCCV) against entrego's 7 (VCCCVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
entre
7 ch
entrego

Part-of-speech tell for entre / entrego

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: entre is apreposition and entregoanadjective. On the page they differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “entre” sits inside “entrego”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 16579, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

entre is recorded at frequency rank #71, classified as aprep, pronounced /ˈẽ.tɾɨ/. entrego is at rank #16,508, tagged as anadj.

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 16579, this pair ranks #54,916 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of entre vs entrego

Shared letters: enrt. Private to "entre": -. Private to "entrego": go.

"entre" · 5 letters · shape VCCCV  ·  "entrego" · 7 letters · shape VCCCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • entre ← enntre · enrte · enter · entrre · enttre · etnre · netre
  • entrego ← enntrego · enrtego · entergo · entreggo · entreog · entrgeo · entrrego · enttrego

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "entre" for "entrego" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "entre" is a preposition and "entrego" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "entre" vs "entrego" - which ranks higher?
"entre" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #71 in our Portuguese list, against #16,508 for "entrego". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

You've compared "entre" and "entrego". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "entre" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "entrego" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #54,916 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "entre" and "entrego" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "entre vs être". 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 #54,916 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