Which to use
“mando” is a verb and “mundo” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #5,551
- “mando” frequency rank
- #81
- “mundo” frequency rank
- 5632
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | mando | mundo |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | primeira pessoa do singular do presente indicativo do verbo mandar | mundificado, limpo; puro |
Where the eye mixes mando and mundo
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. mando and mundo follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Look-alike desk: mando vs mundo
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: mando is /ˈmɐ̃.du/ while mundo is [ˈmʊ̃dʊ]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by a single letter - a in “mando” becomes u in “mundo”, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 5632, 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/. mundo is at rank #81, tagged as anadj, pronounced [ˈmʊ̃dʊ].
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 5632, this pair ranks #68,945 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of mando vs mundo
Shared letters: dmno. Private to "mando": a. Private to "mundo": u.
"mando" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV · "mundo" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
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Useful next steps
Eye-level mix-up between "mando" and "mundo" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "mando" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "mundo" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #68,945 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "mando" and "mundo" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "malho vs mando". 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 #68,945 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.