Which to use
“meses” and “museu” are a confusable Portuguese pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #366
- “meses” frequency rank
- #1,822
- “museu” frequency rank
- 2188
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | meses | museu |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | plural de mês | estabelecimento, normalmente público, onde estão reunidas coleções de objetos de arte, da ciência, etc |
Where the eye mixes meses and museu
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence. meses (CVCVC) and museu (CVCVV) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Visual trap between meses and museu
A purely visual mix-up. meses (/ˈme.zis/) and museu (/mu.ˈzew/) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 2188, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
meses is recorded at frequency rank #366, classified as anoun, pronounced /ˈme.zis/. museu is at rank #1,822, tagged as anoun, pronounced /mu.ˈzew/.
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 2188, this pair ranks #73,285 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of meses vs museu
Shared letters: ems. Private to "meses": -. Private to "museu": u.
"meses" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC · "museu" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "meses" and "museu" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "meses" vs "museu" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
Eye-level mix-up between "meses" and "museu" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "meses" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "museu" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #73,285 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "meses" and "museu" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "museu 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 #73,285 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.