mantovsmonthTell them apart

Which to use

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

#8,079
“manto” frequency rank
#27,183
“month” frequency rank
35262
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature manto month
Definition capa de grande cauda e roda, presa aos ombros, usado por soberanos, príncipes, cavaleiros de ordens militares etc., em cerimônias solenes mês

Letter map: manto vs month

Shared letters muted; letters that set manto and month apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. manto (CVCCV) and month (CVCCC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

5 ch
manto
5 ch
month

Corpus notes: manto and month

manto and month 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 share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 35262, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

manto is recorded at frequency rank #8,079, classified as anoun. month is at rank #27,183, tagged as anoun, pronounced /mʌnθ/.

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 35262, this pair ranks #31,801 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of manto vs month

Shared letters: mnot. Private to "manto": a. Private to "month": h.

"manto" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "month" · 5 letters · shape CVCCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • manto ← amnto · mannto · manot · mantto · matno · mmanto · mnato
  • month ← mmonth · mnoth · monht · monnth · monthh · montth · motnh · omnth

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "manto" for "month" ever safe?
No. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Which is more common, "manto" or "month"?
"manto" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #8,079 in our Portuguese list, against #27,183 for "month". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "manto" and "month". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "manto" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "month" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #31,801 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "manto" and "month" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "monja vs month". 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 #31,801 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