fungovsfunilConfusable pair

Quick tell: fungo is a verb, funil is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“fungo” is a verb and “funil” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#16,519
“fungo” frequency rank
#30,167
“funil” frequency rank
46686
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature fungo funil
Definition primeira pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo fungar utensílio com a forma de pirâmide ou de cone invertido em cujo vértice há um tubo que serve para transvasar líquidos

Letter map: fungo vs funil

Shared letters muted; letters that set fungo and funil apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

5 ch
fungo
5 ch
funil

Part-of-speech tell for fungo / funil

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: fungo is averb and funilanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 46686, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

fungo is recorded at frequency rank #16,519, classified as averb, pronounced /ˈfũ.ɡu/. funil is at rank #30,167, 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 46686, this pair ranks #18,627 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of fungo vs funil

Shared letters: fnu. Private to "fungo": go. Private to "funil": il.

"fungo" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "funil" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • fungoffungo · fnugo · fugno · funggo · funngo · funog · ufngo
  • funilffunil · fnuil · fuinl · funill · funli · funnil · ufnil

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "fungo" for "funil" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "fungo" is a verb and "funil" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "fungo" or "funil" show up more?
"fungo" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #16,519 in our Portuguese list, against #30,167 for "funil". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "fungo" and "funil". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "fungo" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "funil" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #18,627 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "fungo" and "funil" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "fénix vs funil". 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 #18,627 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