memo vs mesa, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#35,681
“memo” frequency rank: #1,364
“mesa” frequency rank: 37045
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	memo	mesa
Definition	mesmo	móvel usado como superfície para se alimentar, conversar, estudar; távola

Letter map: memo vs mesa

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

4 ch

memo

4 ch

mesa

Role in the sentence - memo and mesa

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: memo is anadverb and mesaanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 37045, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

memo is recorded at frequency rank #35,681, classified as anadv. mesa is at rank #1,364, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˈme.zɐ/.

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 37045, this pair ranks #29,647 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of memo vs mesa

Shared letters: em. Private to "memo": o. Private to "mesa": as.

"memo" · 4 letters · shape CVCV · "mesa" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

memo ← emmo · memmo · meom · mmemo · mmeo
mesa ← emsa · meas · messa · mmesa · msea

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "memo" and "mesa" be used interchangeably?

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

In ordinary Portuguese text, does "memo" or "mesa" show up more?

"mesa" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,364 in our Portuguese list, against #35,681 for "memo". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

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Full dictionary entry for "memo" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "mesa" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #29,647 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"memo" and "mesa" 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 #29,647 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.