monovsmundoTell them apart

Which to use

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

#23,739
“mono” frequency rank
#81
“mundo” frequency rank
23820
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature mono mundo
Definition relativo a macaco: «...flor das raças monas.» Castilho. mundificado, limpo; puro

Letter map: mono vs mundo

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

4 ch
mono
5 ch
mundo

Corpus notes: mono and mundo

mono and mundo 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 differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 23820, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mono is recorded at frequency rank #23,739, classified as anadj. 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 23820, this pair ranks #45,928 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of mono vs mundo

Shared letters: mno. Private to "mono": -. Private to "mundo": du.

"mono" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "mundo" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • mono ← mmono · mnoo · monno · omno
  • mundo ← mmundo · mnudo · mudno · munddo · munndo · munod · umndo

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "mono" and "mundo" be used interchangeably?
No. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Frequency check: "mono" vs "mundo" - which ranks higher?
"mundo" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #81 in our Portuguese list, against #23,739 for "mono". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

You've compared "mono" and "mundo". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "mono" 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 #45,928 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mono" and "mundo" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "mono 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 #45,928 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