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

#21,772
“honor” frequency rank
#2,097
“honra” frequency rank
23869
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature honor honra
Definition honra honestidade, integridade em suas crenças e ações

Letter map: honor vs honra

Shared letters muted; letters that set honor and honra apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. honor (CVCVC) and honra (CVCCV) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

5 ch
honor
5 ch
honra

Spelling & dictionary notes on honor vs honra

honor and honra 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 23869, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

honor is recorded at frequency rank #21,772, classified as anoun, pronounced /u.ˈnoɾ/. honra is at rank #2,097, 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 23869, this pair ranks #45,867 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of honor vs honra

Shared letters: hnor. Private to "honor": -. Private to "honra": a.

"honor" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC  ·  "honra" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • honor ← hhonor · hnoor · honnor · honorr · honro · hoonr · ohnor
  • honra ← hhonra · hnora · honar · honnra · honrra · horna · ohnra

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "honor" and "honra" 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.
Frequency check: "honor" vs "honra" - which ranks higher?
"honra" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,097 in our Portuguese list, against #21,772 for "honor". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Pair "honor" vs "honra" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "honor" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "honra" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #45,867 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "honor" and "honra" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "hon vs honor". 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 #45,867 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