mamão vs mansão, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#23,399
“mamão” frequency rank: #6,672
“mansão” frequency rank: 30071
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	mamão	mansão
Definition	que mama muito	morada

Letter map: mamão vs mansão

Shared letters muted; letters that set mamão and mansão apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. mamão runs 5 letters (CVCVV) against mansão's 6 (CVCCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch

mamão

6 ch

mansão

Part-of-speech tell for mamão / mansão

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: mamão is anadjective and mansãoanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 30071, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mamão is recorded at frequency rank #23,399, classified as anadj. mansão is at rank #6,672, tagged as anoun, pronounced /mɐ̃.ˈsɐ̃w̃/.

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 30071, this pair ranks #38,381 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of mamão vs mansão

Shared letters: amoã. Private to "mamão": -. Private to "mansão": ns.

"mamão" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV · "mansão" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVV

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "mamão" for "mansão" ever safe?

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

In ordinary Portuguese text, does "mamão" or "mansão" show up more?

"mansão" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #6,672 in our Portuguese list, against #23,399 for "mamão". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "mamão" and "mansão". Here's where to go from here.

Full dictionary entry for "mamão" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "mansão" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #38,381 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"mamão" and "mansão" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "maa vs mamão". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #38,381 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.