MadrivsmagroTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#10,039
“Madri” frequency rank
#10,924
“magro” frequency rank
20963
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Madri magro
Definition capital da Espanha e da comunidade autônoma de mesmo nome não gordo, não cheio de carnes

Letter map: Madri vs magro

Shared letters muted; letters that set Madri and magro apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. Madri and magro follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

5 ch
Madri
5 ch
magro

Part-of-speech tell for Madri / magro

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Madri is anoun and magroanadjective. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 20963, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Madri is recorded at frequency rank #10,039, classified as anoun, pronounced /maˈdɾi/. magro is at rank #10,924, 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 20963, this pair ranks #49,421 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Madri vs magro

Shared letters: amr. Private to "Madri": di. Private to "magro": go.

"Madri" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "magro" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Madri ← amdri · maddri · madir · madrri · mardi · mdari · mmadri
  • magro ← amgro · maggro · magor · magrro · margo · mgaro · mmagro

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "Madri" and "magro" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Madri" is a noun and "magro" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "Madri" or "magro" show up more?
"Madri" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #10,039 in our Portuguese list, against #10,924 for "magro". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Pair "Madri" vs "magro" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Madri" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "magro" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #49,421 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Madri" and "magro" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "magro vs malho". 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 #49,421 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