moídovsmoodConfusable pair

Quick tell: moído is a adjective, mood is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“moído” is an adjective and “mood” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#40,251
“moído” frequency rank
#25,401
“mood” frequency rank
65652
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature moído mood
Definition que se moeu humor

Letter map: moído vs mood

Shared letters muted; letters that set moído and mood apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. moído runs 5 letters (CVVCV) against mood's 4 (CVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
moído
4 ch
mood

Role in the sentence - moído and mood

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: moído is anadjective and moodanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 65652, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

moído is recorded at frequency rank #40,251, classified as anadj. mood is at rank #25,401, tagged as anoun, pronounced /mud/.

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 65652, this pair ranks #5,290 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of moído vs mood

Shared letters: dmo. Private to "moído": í. Private to "mood": -.

"moído" · 5 letters · shape CVVCV  ·  "mood" · 4 letters · shape CVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • mood ← mmood · mod · moodd · omod

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "moído" and "mood" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "moído" is an adjective and "mood" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "moído" or "mood"?
"mood" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #25,401 in our Portuguese list, against #40,251 for "moído". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've compared "moído" and "mood". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "moído" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "mood" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #5,290 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "moído" and "mood" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "mogno vs moído". 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 #5,290 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