Which to use
“mourão” is an adjective and “murro” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #15,627
- “mourão” frequency rank
- #17,335
- “murro” frequency rank
- 32962
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | mourão | murro |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | muito morena ou moreno, muito mouro | pancada desferida com a mão fechada |
Where the eye mixes mourão and murro
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. mourão runs 6 letters (CVVCVV) against murro's 5 (CVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Visual trap between mourão and murro
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: mourão is /mou.'ɾaŋ/ while murro is /ˈmu.Ru/. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (adjective vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 32962, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
mourão is recorded at frequency rank #15,627, classified as anadj, pronounced /mou.'ɾaŋ/. murro is at rank #17,335, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˈmu.Ru/.
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 32962, this pair ranks #34,685 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of mourão vs murro
Shared letters: moru. Private to "mourão": ã. Private to "murro": -.
"mourão" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVV · "murro" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV
Known mistypes of this pair
- murro ← mmurro · mruro · muror · umrro
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "mourão" for "murro" ever safe?
Which is more common, "mourão" or "murro"?
Useful next steps
Eye-level mix-up between "mourão" and "murro" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "mourão" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "murro" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #34,685 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "mourão" and "murro" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "mirra vs murro". 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 #34,685 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.