je vs job, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“je” is a verb and “job” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#14,171
“je” frequency rank: #13,776
“job” frequency rank: 27947
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	je	job
Definition	segunda pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo jam:	trabalho

Letter map: je vs job

Shared letters muted; letters that set je and job apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. je runs 2 letters (CV) against job's 3 (CVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

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job

Part-of-speech tell for je / job

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: je is averb and jobanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 27947, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

je is recorded at frequency rank #14,171, classified as averb, pronounced /ˈjɛ/. job is at rank #13,776, 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 27947, this pair ranks #40,965 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of je vs job

Shared letters: j. Private to "je": e. Private to "job": bo.

"je" · 2 letters · shape CV · "job" · 3 letters · shape CVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "je" for "job" ever safe?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "je" is a verb and "job" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

In ordinary Portuguese text, does "je" or "job" show up more?

"job" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #13,776 in our Portuguese list, against #14,171 for "je". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "je" and "job". Here's where to go from here.

Full dictionary entry for "je" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "job" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #40,965 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"je" and "job" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "je vs jed". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #40,965 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.