mandovsminadoWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: mando is a verb, minado is an adverb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“mando” is a verb and “minado” is an adverb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#5,551
“mando” frequency rank
#38,375
“minado” frequency rank
43926
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature mando minado
Definition primeira pessoa do singular do presente indicativo do verbo mandar que tem minas terrestres

Letter map: mando vs minado

Shared letters muted; letters that set mando and minado apart highlighted. Shared run: 4.

5 ch
mando
6 ch
minado

Part-of-speech tell for mando / minado

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: mando is averb and minadoanadverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 43926, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mando is recorded at frequency rank #5,551, classified as averb, pronounced /ˈmɐ̃.du/. minado is at rank #38,375, tagged as anadv.

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 43926, this pair ranks #21,646 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of mando vs minado

Shared letters: admno. Private to "mando": -. Private to "minado": i.

"mando" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "minado" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • mandoamndo · madno · manddo · manndo · manod · mmando · mnado
  • minadoimnado · miando · minaddo · minaod · mindao · minnado · mminado · mniado

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "mando" for "minado" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "mando" is a verb and "minado" an adverb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "mando" or "minado"?
"mando" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #5,551 in our Portuguese list, against #38,375 for "minado". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Pair "mando" vs "minado" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "mando" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "minado" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #21,646 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mando" and "minado" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "melado vs minado". 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 #21,646 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