musovsmutoTell them apart

Quick tell: muso is a noun, muto is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“muso” is a noun and “muto” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#48,023
“muso” frequency rank
#43,549
“muto” frequency rank
91572
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature muso muto
Definition homem que inspira o bem-querer de outras pessoas por conta de sua boa aparência, belo físico e ademais por vezes também incluindo-se a estes o seu carisma mudar algo de sítio, remover.

Letter map: muso vs muto

Shared letters muted; letters that set muso and muto apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. muso and muto follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

4 ch
muso
4 ch
muto

Grammar separator: muso vs muto

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: muso is anoun and mutoaverb. On the page they differ by a single letter - s in “muso” becomes t in “muto”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 91572, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

muso is recorded at frequency rank #48,023, classified as anoun. muto is at rank #43,549, tagged as averb, pronounced /ˈmuː.toː/.

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 91572, this pair ranks #210 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of muso vs muto

Shared letters: mou. Private to "muso": s. Private to "muto": t.

"muso" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "muto" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • muso ← mmuso · msuo · muos · musso · umso
  • muto ← mmuto · mtuo · muot · mutto · umto

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "muso" for "muto" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "muso" is a noun and "muto" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "muso" or "muto" show up more?
"muto" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #43,549 in our Portuguese list, against #48,023 for "muso". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Pair "muso" vs "muto" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "muso" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "muto" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #210 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "muso" and "muto" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Mist 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 #210 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