job vs José, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#13,776
“job” frequency rank: #567
“José” frequency rank: 14343
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	job	José
Definition	trabalho	José

Letter map: job vs José

Shared letters muted; letters that set job and José apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. job runs 3 letters (CVC) against José's 4 (CVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

3 ch

job

4 ch

José

Spelling & dictionary notes on job vs José

job and José 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 differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 14343, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

job is recorded at frequency rank #13,776, classified as anoun. José is at rank #567, tagged as anoun, pronounced /xo.sé/..

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 14343, this pair ranks #57,771 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of job vs José

Shared letters: jo. Private to "job": b. Private to "José": sé.

"job" · 3 letters · shape CVC · "José" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "job" and "José" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.

Which is more common, "job" or "José"?

"José" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #567 in our Portuguese list, against #13,776 for "job". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

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

Full dictionary entry for "job" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "José" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #57,771 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"job" and "José" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "jed vs job". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #57,771 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.