hojevshouseTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#117
“hoje” frequency rank
#2,684
“house” frequency rank
2801
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature hoje house
Definition o dia atual, aquele em que se está casa

Letter map: hoje vs house

Shared letters muted; letters that set hoje and house apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. hoje runs 4 letters (CVCV) against house's 5 (CVVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
hoje
5 ch
house

Grammar separator: hoje vs house

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: hoje is anadverb and houseanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 2801, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

hoje is recorded at frequency rank #117, classified as anadv. house is at rank #2,684, tagged as anoun, pronounced /haʊs/.

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 2801, this pair ranks #72,466 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of hoje vs house

Shared letters: eho. Private to "hoje": j. Private to "house": su.

"hoje" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "house" · 5 letters · shape CVVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • hoje ← hhoje · hjoe · hoej · hojje · ohje
  • house ← hhouse · hosue · houes · housse · huose · ohuse

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "hoje" for "house" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "hoje" is an adverb and "house" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "hoje" or "house"?
"hoje" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #117 in our Portuguese list, against #2,684 for "house". 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 "hoje" and "house". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "hoje" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "house" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #72,466 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "hoje" and "house" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Hebe vs hoje". 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 #72,466 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