menuvsminoWhat's the difference?

Which to use

“menu” and “mino” are a confusable Portuguese pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#12,288
“menu” frequency rank
#27,177
“mino” frequency rank
39465
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature menu mino
Definition cardápio forma masculina de mina: rapaz

Letter map: menu vs mino

Shared letters muted; letters that set menu and mino apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch
menu
4 ch
mino

Spelling & dictionary notes on menu vs mino

menu and mino are indexed as a confusable Portuguese pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 39465, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

menu is recorded at frequency rank #12,288, classified as anoun, pronounced /mɨ.ˈnu/. mino is at rank #27,177, 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 39465, this pair ranks #26,771 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of menu vs mino

Shared letters: mn. Private to "menu": eu. Private to "mino": io.

"menu" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "mino" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • menuemnu · mennu · meun · mmenu · mneu
  • minoimno · minno · mion · mmino · mnio

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "menu" and "mino" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "menu" or "mino" show up more?
"menu" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #12,288 in our Portuguese list, against #27,177 for "mino". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pair "menu" vs "mino" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "menu" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "mino" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #26,771 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "menu" and "mino" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "mino 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 #26,771 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