fome vs fort, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“fome” and “fort” are a confusable Portuguese pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#1,047
“fome” frequency rank: #11,467
“fort” frequency rank: 12514
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	fome	fort
Definition	necessidade de comer ou grande apetite; sofreguidão	forte

Letter map: fome vs fort

Shared letters muted; letters that set fome and fort apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch

fome

4 ch

fort

Corpus notes: fome and fort

fome and fort are indexed as a confusable Portuguese pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 12514, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

fome is recorded at frequency rank #1,047, classified as anoun, pronounced /ˈfɔ.mɨ/. fort is at rank #11,467, tagged as anoun.

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 12514, this pair ranks #60,024 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of fome vs fort

Shared letters: fo. Private to "fome": em. Private to "fort": rt.

"fome" · 4 letters · shape CVCV · "fort" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

fome ← ffome · fmoe · foem · fomme · ofme
fort ← ffort · forrt · fortt · fotr · frot · ofrt

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "fome" and "fort" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.

Which is more common, "fome" or "fort"?

"fome" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,047 in our Portuguese list, against #11,467 for "fort". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

You've compared "fome" and "fort". Here's where to go from here.

Full dictionary entry for "fome" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "fort" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #60,024 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"fome" and "fort" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "fern vs fort". 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 #60,024 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.