nego vs no, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“nego” is a noun and “no” is a pronoun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#15,630
“nego” frequency rank: #15
“no” frequency rank: 15645
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	nego	no
Definition	negro, afrodescendente	forma enclítica do pronome o quando precedido de forma verbal terminada em som nasal

Letter map: nego vs no

Shared letters muted; letters that set nego and no apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. nego runs 4 letters (CVCV) against no's 2 (CV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch

nego

2 ch

Role in the sentence - nego and no

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: nego is anoun and noapronoun. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 15645, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

nego is recorded at frequency rank #15,630, classified as anoun. no is at rank #15, tagged as apron.

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 15645, this pair ranks #56,121 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of nego vs no

Shared letters: no. Private to "nego": eg. Private to "no": -.

"nego" · 4 letters · shape CVCV · "no" · 2 letters · shape CV

Known mistypes of this pair

nego ← engo · neggo · neog · ngeo · nnego

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "nego" for "no" ever safe?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "nego" is a noun and "no" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Which is more common, "nego" or "no"?

"no" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #15 in our Portuguese list, against #15,630 for "nego". 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 "nego" and "no".

Full dictionary entry for "nego" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "no" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #56,121 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"nego" and "no" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "nego vs nena". 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 #56,121 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.