internamentevsinternamentoTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#10,738
“internamente” frequency rank
#43,951
“internamento” frequency rank
54689
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature internamente internamento
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Letter map: internamente vs internamento

Shared letters muted; letters that set internamente and internamento apart highlighted. Shared run: 11.

12 ch
internamente
12 ch
internamento

Part-of-speech tell for internamente / internamento

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: internamente is anadverb and internamentoanoun. On the page they differ by a single letter - e in “internamente” becomes o in “internamento”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 54689, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

internamente is recorded at frequency rank #10,738, classified as anadv. internamento is at rank #43,951, 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 54689, this pair ranks #11,092 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of internamente vs internamento

Shared letters: aeimnrt. Private to "internamente": -. Private to "internamento": o.

"internamente" · 12 letters · shape VCCVCCVCVCCV  ·  "internamento" · 12 letters · shape VCCVCCVCVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • internamenteinetrnamente · innternamente · intenramente · interanmente · internaemnte · internamenet · internamennte · internamentte
  • internamentoinetrnamento · innternamento · intenramento · interanmento · internaemnto · internamennto · internamenot · internamentto

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "internamente" and "internamento" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "internamente" is an adverb and "internamento" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "internamente" vs "internamento" - which ranks higher?
"internamente" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #10,738 in our Portuguese list, against #43,951 for "internamento". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "internamente" and "internamento".

  • Full dictionary entry for "internamente" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "internamento" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #11,092 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "internamente" and "internamento" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "interinamente vs internamento". 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 #11,092 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