manhãvsmanhasWhat's the difference?

Which to use

“manhã” and “manhas” are a confusable Portuguese pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#428
“manhã” frequency rank
#43,982
“manhas” frequency rank
44410
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature manhã manhas
Definition período do dia entre o nascer-do-sol e o meio-dia manhas, costume, hábito, modo

Letter map: manhã vs manhas

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

5 ch
manhã
6 ch
manhas

Spelling & dictionary notes on manhã vs manhas

manhã and manhas are indexed as a confusable Portuguese pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 44410, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

manhã is recorded at frequency rank #428, classified as anoun, pronounced /mɐ.ˈɲɐ̃/. manhas is at rank #43,982, tagged as anoun.

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 44410, this pair ranks #21,084 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of manhã vs manhas

Shared letters: ahmn. Private to "manhã": ã. Private to "manhas": s.

"manhã" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "manhas" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • manhas ← amnhas · mahnas · manahs · manhass · manhhas · manhsa · mannhas · mmanhas

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "manhã" for "manhas" ever safe?
No. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Frequency check: "manhã" vs "manhas" - which ranks higher?
"manhã" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #428 in our Portuguese list, against #43,982 for "manhas". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

You've compared "manhã" and "manhas". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "manhã" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "manhas" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #21,084 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "manhã" and "manhas" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "manhas vs manhoso". 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 #21,084 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