medidovsmeninoWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#19,494
“medido” frequency rank
#1,437
“menino” frequency rank
20931
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature medido menino
Definition calculado; que se conseguiu medir, mensurar, calcular criança ou adolescente do gênero masculino

Letter map: medido vs menino

Shared letters muted; letters that set medido and menino apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. medido and menino 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
menino

Part-of-speech tell for medido / menino

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: medido is anadjective and meninoanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 20931, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

medido is recorded at frequency rank #19,494, classified as anadj. menino is at rank #1,437, 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 20931, this pair ranks #49,464 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of medido vs menino

Shared letters: eimo. Private to "medido": d. Private to "menino": n.

"medido" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV  ·  "menino" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • medido ← emdido · mdeido · meddido · meddio · mediddo · mediod · meiddo · mmedido
  • menino ← emnino · meinno · meninno · menion · mennino · mennio · mmenino · mneino

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "medido" and "menino" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "medido" is an adjective and "menino" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "medido" or "menino"?
"menino" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,437 in our Portuguese list, against #19,494 for "medido". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "medido" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "menino" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #49,464 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "medido" and "menino" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "medido vs melado". 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 #49,464 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