medidovsmeladoConfusable pair

Quick tell: medido is a adjective, melado is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#19,494
“medido” frequency rank
#46,950
“melado” frequency rank
66444
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature medido melado
Definition calculado; que se conseguiu medir, mensurar, calcular caldo grosso de cana-de-açúcar ou rapadura dissolvida e que é usado como sobremesa

Letter map: medido vs melado

Shared letters muted; letters that set medido and melado apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. medido and melado follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

6 ch
medido
6 ch
melado

Part-of-speech tell for medido / melado

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: medido is anadjective and meladoanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 66444, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

medido is recorded at frequency rank #19,494, classified as anadj. melado is at rank #46,950, 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 66444, this pair ranks #4,988 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of medido vs melado

Shared letters: demo. Private to "medido": i. Private to "melado": al.

"medido" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV  ·  "melado" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • medido ← emdido · mdeido · meddido · meddio · mediddo · mediod · meiddo · mmedido
  • melado ← emlado · mealdo · meladdo · melaod · meldao · mellado · mleado · mmelado

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "medido" and "melado" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "medido" is an adjective and "melado" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "medido" or "melado"?
"medido" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #19,494 in our Portuguese list, against #46,950 for "melado". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've compared "medido" and "melado". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "medido" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "melado" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #4,988 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "medido" and "melado" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "melado vs minado". 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 #4,988 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