iníciovsinvictoTell them apart

Quick tell: início is a noun, invicto is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“início” is a noun and “invicto” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#377
“início” frequency rank
#18,899
“invicto” frequency rank
19276
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature início invicto
Definition começo que nunca foi vencido

Letter map: início vs invicto

Shared letters muted; letters that set início and invicto apart highlighted. Shared run: 4.

6 ch
início
7 ch
invicto

Role in the sentence - início and invicto

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: início is anoun and invictoanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 19276, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

início is recorded at frequency rank #377, classified as anoun. invicto is at rank #18,899, tagged as anadj, pronounced /ĩ.ˈvik.tu/.

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 19276, this pair ranks #51,493 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of início vs invicto

Shared letters: cino. Private to "início": í. Private to "invicto": tv.

"início" · 6 letters · shape VCVCVV  ·  "invicto" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • invictoinivcto · innvicto · invcito · inviccto · invicot · invictto · invitco · invvicto

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "início" for "invicto" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "início" is a noun and "invicto" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "início" or "invicto"?
"início" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #377 in our Portuguese list, against #18,899 for "invicto". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

You've compared "início" and "invicto". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "início" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "invicto" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #51,493 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "início" and "invicto" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "indício vs invicto". 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 #51,493 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