minadovsmundoTell them apart

Quick tell: minado is a adverb, mundo is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“minado” is an adverb and “mundo” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#38,375
“minado” frequency rank
#81
“mundo” frequency rank
38456
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature minado mundo
Definition que tem minas terrestres mundificado, limpo; puro

Letter map: minado vs mundo

Shared letters muted; letters that set minado and mundo apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. minado runs 6 letters (CVCVCV) against mundo's 5 (CVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
minado
5 ch
mundo

Role in the sentence - minado and mundo

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: minado is anadverb and mundoanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 38456, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

minado is recorded at frequency rank #38,375, classified as anadv. mundo is at rank #81, tagged as anadj, pronounced [ˈmʊ̃dʊ].

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 38456, this pair ranks #28,000 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of minado vs mundo

Shared letters: dmno. Private to "minado": ai. Private to "mundo": u.

"minado" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV  ·  "mundo" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • minado ← imnado · miando · minaddo · minaod · mindao · minnado · mminado · mniado
  • mundo ← mmundo · mnudo · mudno · munddo · munndo · munod · umndo

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "minado" and "mundo" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "minado" is an adverb and "mundo" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "minado" or "mundo"?
"mundo" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #81 in our Portuguese list, against #38,375 for "minado". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "minado" and "mundo".

  • Full dictionary entry for "minado" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "mundo" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #28,000 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "minado" and "mundo" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "melado vs minado". 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 #28,000 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