Which to use
“medo” is an adjective and “melado” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #379
- “medo” frequency rank
- #46,950
- “melado” frequency rank
- 47329
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | medo | melado |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | que pertence ou se refere à Média | caldo grosso de cana-de-açúcar ou rapadura dissolvida e que é usado como sobremesa |
Letter map: medo vs melado
Shared letters muted; letters that set medo and melado apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. medo runs 4 letters (CVCV) against melado's 6 (CVCVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Part-of-speech tell for medo / melado
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: medo is anadjective and meladoanoun. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 47329, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
medo is recorded at frequency rank #379, classified as anadj, pronounced AFI: /'me.du/. 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 47329, this pair ranks #17,927 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of medo vs melado
Shared letters: demo. Private to "medo": -. Private to "melado": al.
"medo" · 4 letters · shape CVCV · "melado" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "medo" and "melado" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "medo" or "melado"?
What to do next
Pair "medo" vs "melado" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.
- Full dictionary entry for "medo" 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 #17,927 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "medo" 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 #17,927 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.