figovsfitWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: figo is a noun, fit is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#32,609
“figo” frequency rank
#21,187
“fit” frequency rank
53796
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature figo fit
Definition figo em boa forma

Letter map: figo vs fit

Shared letters muted; letters that set figo and fit apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. figo runs 4 letters (CVCV) against fit's 3 (CVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
figo
3 ch
fit

Role in the sentence - figo and fit

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: figo is anoun and fitanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 53796, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

figo is recorded at frequency rank #32,609, classified as anoun, pronounced /ˈfi.ɡɔ/. fit is at rank #21,187, 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 53796, this pair ranks #11,772 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of figo vs fit

Shared letters: fi. Private to "figo": go. Private to "fit": t.

"figo" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "fit" · 3 letters · shape CVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • figo ← ffigo · fgio · figgo · fiog · ifgo

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "figo" for "fit" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "figo" is a noun and "fit" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "figo" or "fit" show up more?
"fit" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #21,187 in our Portuguese list, against #32,609 for "figo". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've compared "figo" and "fit". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "figo" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "fit" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #11,772 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "figo" and "fit" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "figo vs filão". 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 #11,772 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