Which to use
“meu” is a pronoun and “museu” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #46
- “meu” frequency rank
- #1,822
- “museu” frequency rank
- 1868
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | meu | museu |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | de posse da primeira pessoa do singular (eu); pertencente a mim | estabelecimento, normalmente público, onde estão reunidas coleções de objetos de arte, da ciência, etc |
Where the eye mixes meu and museu
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence. meu runs 3 letters (CVV) against museu's 5 (CVCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Look-alike desk: meu vs museu
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: meu is /ˈmew/ while museu is /mu.ˈzew/. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 2 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (pronoun vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 1868, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
meu is recorded at frequency rank #46, classified as apron, pronounced /ˈmew/. 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 1868, this pair ranks #73,660 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of meu vs museu
Shared letters: emu. Private to "meu": -. Private to "museu": s.
"meu" · 3 letters · shape CVV · "museu" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV
Known mistypes of this pair
- museu ← mmuseu · msueu · muesu · musseu · musue · umseu
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "meu" for "museu" ever safe?
Frequency check: "meu" vs "museu" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.
- Full dictionary entry for "meu" 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 #73,660 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "meu" 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 #73,660 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.