mané vs mas, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“mané” is a noun and “mas” is a conjunction - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#16,814
“mané” frequency rank: #25
“mas” frequency rank: 16839
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	mané	mas
Definition	pessoa boba, tolo	conjunção adversativa, indica clara oposição entre ideias

Letter map: mané vs mas

Shared letters muted; letters that set mané and mas apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. mané runs 4 letters (CVCV) against mas's 3 (CVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch

mané

3 ch

mas

Grammar separator: mané vs mas

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: mané is anoun and masaconjunction. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 16839, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mané is recorded at frequency rank #16,814, classified as anoun. mas is at rank #25, tagged as aconj, pronounced /ˈmɐʃ/.

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 16839, this pair ranks #54,604 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of mané vs mas

Shared letters: am. Private to "mané": né. Private to "mas": s.

"mané" · 4 letters · shape CVCV · "mas" · 3 letters · shape CVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "mané" for "mas" ever safe?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "mané" is a noun and "mas" a conjunction, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Which is more common, "mané" or "mas"?

"mas" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #25 in our Portuguese list, against #16,814 for "mané". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Pair "mané" vs "mas" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

Full dictionary entry for "mané" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "mas" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #54,604 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"mané" and "mas" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "maa vs mané". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #54,604 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.