hidevshojeWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: hide is a noun, hoje is an adverb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#36,940
“hide” frequency rank
#117
“hoje” frequency rank
37057
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature hide hoje
Definition esconderijo o dia atual, aquele em que se está

Letter map: hide vs hoje

Shared letters muted; letters that set hide and hoje apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch
hide
4 ch
hoje

Part-of-speech tell for hide / hoje

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: hide is anoun and hojeanadverb. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 37057, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

hide is recorded at frequency rank #36,940, classified as anoun, pronounced /haɪd/. hoje is at rank #117, tagged as anadv.

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 37057, this pair ranks #29,633 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of hide vs hoje

Shared letters: eh. Private to "hide": di. Private to "hoje": jo.

"hide" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "hoje" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • hidehdie · hhide · hidde · hied · ihde
  • hojehhoje · hjoe · hoej · hojje · ohje

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "hide" and "hoje" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "hide" is a noun and "hoje" an adverb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "hide" or "hoje"?
"hoje" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #117 in our Portuguese list, against #36,940 for "hide". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

You've compared "hide" and "hoje". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "hide" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "hoje" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #29,633 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "hide" and "hoje" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Hebe vs hide". 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 #29,633 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