no vs noi, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“no” and “noi” are a confusable Portuguese pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#15
“no” frequency rank: #36,563
“noi” frequency rank: 36578
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	no	noi
Definition	forma enclítica do pronome o quando precedido de forma verbal terminada em som nasal	nós

Letter map: no vs noi

Shared letters muted; letters that set no and noi apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

2 ch

3 ch

noi

Pair insight - no / noi

no and noi 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 extra letter(s) - “no” sits inside “noi”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 36578, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

no is recorded at frequency rank #15, classified as apron. noi is at rank #36,563, 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 36578, this pair ranks #30,178 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of no vs noi

Shared letters: no. Private to "no": -. Private to "noi": i.

"no" · 2 letters · shape CV · "noi" · 3 letters · shape CVV

Frequently Asked Questions

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

No. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “no” sits inside “noi”, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.

Frequency check: "no" vs "noi" - which ranks higher?

"no" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #15 in our Portuguese list, against #36,563 for "noi". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Pair "no" vs "noi" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

Full dictionary entry for "no" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "noi" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #30,178 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"no" and "noi" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "noi vs noon". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #30,178 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.