innervsinvésTell them apart

Quick tell: inner is a adjective, invés is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#33,892
“inner” frequency rank
#2,149
“invés” frequency rank
36041
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature inner invés
Definition interior, interno o mesmo que avesso

Letter map: inner vs invés

Shared letters muted; letters that set inner and invés apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. inner and invés follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (VCCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

5 ch
inner
5 ch
invés

Role in the sentence - inner and invés

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: inner is anadjective and invésanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 36041, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

inner is recorded at frequency rank #33,892, classified as anadj. invés is at rank #2,149, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ĩ.ˈvɛʃ/.

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 36041, this pair ranks #30,860 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of inner vs invés

Shared letters: in. Private to "inner": er. Private to "invés": své.

"inner" · 5 letters · shape VCCVC  ·  "invés" · 5 letters · shape VCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • inner ← inenr · iner · innerr · innre · niner

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "inner" for "invés" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "inner" is an adjective and "invés" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "inner" or "invés" show up more?
"invés" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,149 in our Portuguese list, against #33,892 for "inner". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

You've compared "inner" and "invés". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "inner" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "invés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #30,860 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "inner" and "invés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "iates vs invés". 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 #30,860 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