meetvsmemoWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: meet is a verb, memo is an adverb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“meet” is a verb and “memo” is an adverb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#15,160
“meet” frequency rank
#35,681
“memo” frequency rank
50841
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature meet memo
Definition encontrar alguém; conhecer alguém mesmo

Letter map: meet vs memo

Shared letters muted; letters that set meet and memo apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch
meet
4 ch
memo

Role in the sentence - meet and memo

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: meet is averb and memoanadverb. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 50841, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

meet is recorded at frequency rank #15,160, classified as averb, pronounced /miːt/. memo is at rank #35,681, tagged as anadv.

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 50841, this pair ranks #14,122 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of meet vs memo

Shared letters: em. Private to "meet": t. Private to "memo": o.

"meet" · 4 letters · shape CVVC  ·  "memo" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • meetemet · meett · met · mete · mmeet
  • memoemmo · memmo · meom · mmemo · mmeo

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "meet" and "memo" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "meet" is a verb and "memo" an adverb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "meet" or "memo"?
"meet" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #15,160 in our Portuguese list, against #35,681 for "memo". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Pair "meet" vs "memo" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "meet" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "memo" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #14,122 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "meet" and "memo" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "memo vs muso". 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 #14,122 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