judovsjustoConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#31,424
“judo” frequency rank
#2,195
“justo” frequency rank
33619
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature judo justo
Definition o mesmo que judô que age com justiça

Letter map: judo vs justo

Shared letters muted; letters that set judo and justo apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. judo runs 4 letters (CVCV) against justo's 5 (CVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
judo
5 ch
justo

Part-of-speech tell for judo / justo

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: judo is anoun and justoanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 33619, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

judo is recorded at frequency rank #31,424, classified as anoun, pronounced /ˈʒu.du/. justo is at rank #2,195, tagged as anadj.

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 33619, this pair ranks #33,839 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of judo vs justo

Shared letters: jou. Private to "judo": d. Private to "justo": st.

"judo" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "justo" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • judo ← jduo · jjudo · juddo · juod · ujdo
  • justo ← jjusto · jsuto · jusot · jussto · justto · jutso · ujsto

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "judo" for "justo" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "judo" is a noun and "justo" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "judo" vs "justo" - which ranks higher?
"justo" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,195 in our Portuguese list, against #31,424 for "judo". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Pair "judo" vs "justo" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "judo" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "justo" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #33,839 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "judo" and "justo" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "judo vs junco". 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 #33,839 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