memovsmuroWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: memo is a adverb, muro is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#35,681
“memo” frequency rank
#4,664
“muro” frequency rank
40345
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature memo muro
Definition mesmo construção comumente usada para separar terrenos

Letter map: memo vs muro

Shared letters muted; letters that set memo and muro apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. memo and muro follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

4 ch
memo
4 ch
muro

Grammar separator: memo vs muro

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: memo is anadverb and muroanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 40345, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

memo is recorded at frequency rank #35,681, classified as anadv. muro is at rank #4,664, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˈmu.ɾu/.

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 40345, this pair ranks #25,778 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of memo vs muro

Shared letters: mo. Private to "memo": e. Private to "muro": ru.

"memo" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "muro" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • memo ← emmo · memmo · meom · mmemo · mmeo
  • muro ← mmuro · mruo · muor · umro

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "memo" and "muro" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "memo" is an adverb and "muro" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "memo" or "muro" show up more?
"muro" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #4,664 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.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "memo" and "muro".

  • Full dictionary entry for "memo" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "muro" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #25,778 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "memo" and "muro" 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 #25,778 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