machão vs manhã, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#37,901
“machão” frequency rank: #428
“manhã” frequency rank: 38329
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	machão	manhã
Definition	mulher de aspecto e de modos varonis	período do dia entre o nascer-do-sol e o meio-dia

Where the eye mixes machão and manhã

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. machão runs 6 letters (CVCCVV) against manhã's 5 (CVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch

machão

5 ch

manhã

Look-alike desk: machão vs manhã

A purely visual mix-up. machão (/mɐ.ˈʃɐ̃w̃/) and manhã (/mɐ.ˈɲɐ̃/) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 38329, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

machão is recorded at frequency rank #37,901, classified as anoun, pronounced /mɐ.ˈʃɐ̃w̃/. manhã is at rank #428, tagged as anoun, pronounced /mɐ.ˈɲɐ̃/.

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 38329, this pair ranks #28,145 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of machão vs manhã

Shared letters: ahmã. Private to "machão": co. Private to "manhã": n.

"machão" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVV · "manhã" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "machão" and "manhã" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No. They are said differently (/mɐ.ˈʃɐ̃w̃/ versus /mɐ.ˈɲɐ̃/) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.

In ordinary Portuguese text, does "machão" or "manhã" show up more?

"manhã" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #428 in our Portuguese list, against #37,901 for "machão". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Eye-level mix-up between "machão" and "manhã" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

Full dictionary entry for "machão" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "manhã" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #28,145 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"machão" and "manhã" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "machão vs malho". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #28,145 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.