medição vs médio, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“medição” is a noun and “médio” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#11,108
“medição” frequency rank: #994
“médio” frequency rank: 12102
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	medição	médio
Definition	ato de medir	que está a meio caminho entre dois extremos

Where the spellings diverge

Shared letters are muted; the letters that actually set medição and médio apart are highlighted. They share 4 letters in sequence, which is exactly why the eye skips the difference.

7 ch

medição

5 ch

médio

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: medição is /mɨ.di.ˈsɐ̃w̃/ while médio is /ˈmɛ.dju/. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 2 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 12102, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

medição is recorded at frequency rank #11,108, classified as anoun, pronounced /mɨ.di.ˈsɐ̃w̃/. médio is at rank #994, tagged as anadj, pronounced /ˈmɛ.dju/.

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 12102, this pair ranks #60,591 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of medição vs médio

Shared letters: dimo. Private to "medição": eãç. Private to "médio": é.

"medição" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVV · "médio" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV

Frequency comparison

medição#11,108

médio#994

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "medição" and "médio" be used interchangeably?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "medição" is a noun and "médio" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Which is more common, "medição" or "médio"?

"médio" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #994 in our Portuguese list, against #11,108 for "medição". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Remembering medição vs médio

The fastest way to pick the right one every time.

Check the role first: if you need a noun, it's “medição”; for an adjective, it's “médio”.
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