fullvsfusoWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: full is a adverb, fuso is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“full” is an adverb and “fuso” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#6,066
“full” frequency rank
#20,614
“fuso” frequency rank
26680
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature full fuso
Definition ver completamente seção de superfície esférica compreendida entre dois semi-círculos de uma esfera

Letter map: full vs fuso

Shared letters muted; letters that set full and fuso apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. full (CVCC) and fuso (CVCV) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

4 ch
full
4 ch
fuso

Part-of-speech tell for full / fuso

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: full is anadverb and fusoanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 26680, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

full is recorded at frequency rank #6,066, classified as anadv. fuso is at rank #20,614, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˈfu.zu/.

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 26680, this pair ranks #42,423 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of full vs fuso

Shared letters: fu. Private to "full": l. Private to "fuso": os.

"full" · 4 letters · shape CVCC  ·  "fuso" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • full ← ffull · flul · ful · ufll
  • fuso ← ffuso · fsuo · fuos · fusso · ufso

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "full" for "fuso" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "full" is an adverb and "fuso" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "full" or "fuso"?
"full" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #6,066 in our Portuguese list, against #20,614 for "fuso". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "full" and "fuso".

  • Full dictionary entry for "full" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "fuso" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #42,423 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "full" and "fuso" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "fosco vs fuso". 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 #42,423 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