magrovsmangoTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#10,924
“magro” frequency rank
#34,799
“mango” frequency rank
45723
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature magro mango
Definition não gordo, não cheio de carnes manga, fruto

Letter map: magro vs mango

Shared letters muted; letters that set magro and mango apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. magro and mango follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

5 ch
magro
5 ch
mango

Role in the sentence - magro and mango

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: magro is anadjective and mangoanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 45723, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

magro is recorded at frequency rank #10,924, classified as anadj. mango is at rank #34,799, 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 45723, this pair ranks #19,672 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of magro vs mango

Shared letters: agmo. Private to "magro": r. Private to "mango": n.

"magro" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "mango" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • magro ← amgro · maggro · magor · magrro · margo · mgaro · mmagro
  • mango ← amngo · manggo · manngo · manog · mmango · mnago

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "magro" for "mango" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "magro" is an adjective and "mango" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "magro" or "mango" show up more?
"magro" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #10,924 in our Portuguese list, against #34,799 for "mango". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've compared "magro" and "mango". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "magro" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "mango" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #19,672 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "magro" and "mango" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "malho vs mango". 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 #19,672 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