magro vs mayo, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#10,924
“magro” frequency rank: #30,251
“mayo” frequency rank: 41175
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	magro	mayo
Definition	não gordo, não cheio de carnes	maio

Letter map: magro vs mayo

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

5 ch

magro

4 ch

mayo

Part-of-speech tell for magro / mayo

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: magro is anadjective and mayoanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 41175, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

magro is recorded at frequency rank #10,924, classified as anadj. mayo is at rank #30,251, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˈma.ʝo/.

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 41175, this pair ranks #24,803 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of magro vs mayo

Shared letters: amo. Private to "magro": gr. Private to "mayo": y.

"magro" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV · "mayo" · 4 letters · shape CVVV

Known mistypes of this pair

magro ← amgro · maggro · magor · magrro · margo · mgaro · mmagro
mayo ← amyo · maoy · mayyo · mmayo · myao

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "magro" and "mayo" be used interchangeably?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "magro" is an adjective and "mayo" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Which is more common, "magro" or "mayo"?

"magro" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #10,924 in our Portuguese list, against #30,251 for "mayo". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

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

Full dictionary entry for "magro" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "mayo" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #24,803 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"magro" and "mayo" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "maa vs mayo". 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 #24,803 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.