findovsfundosWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: findo is a adjective, fundos is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#39,156
“findo” frequency rank
#2,272
“fundos” frequency rank
41428
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature findo fundos
Definition que encerrou(-se), que acabou(-se), passou(-se) a parte de uma casa, de um edifício oposta à fachada

Letter map: findo vs fundos

Shared letters muted; letters that set findo and fundos apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. findo runs 5 letters (CVCCV) against fundos's 6 (CVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
findo
6 ch
fundos

Role in the sentence - findo and fundos

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: findo is anadjective and fundosanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 41428, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

findo is recorded at frequency rank #39,156, classified as anadj. fundos is at rank #2,272, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˈfũ.duʃ/.

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 41428, this pair ranks #24,488 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of findo vs fundos

Shared letters: dfno. Private to "findo": i. Private to "fundos": su.

"findo" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "fundos" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • findo ← ffindo · fidno · finddo · finndo · finod · fnido · ifndo
  • fundos ← ffundos · fnudos · fudnos · funddos · fundoss · fundso · funndos · funods

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "findo" and "fundos" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "findo" is an adjective and "fundos" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "findo" or "fundos"?
"fundos" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,272 in our Portuguese list, against #39,156 for "findo". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

You've compared "findo" and "fundos". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "findo" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "fundos" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #24,488 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "findo" and "fundos" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "filão vs findo". 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 #24,488 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