novsnojoWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: no is a pronoun, nojo is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#15
“no” frequency rank
#8,793
“nojo” frequency rank
8808
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature no nojo
Definition forma enclítica do pronome o quando precedido de forma verbal terminada em som nasal repugnância que uma pessoa ou coisa inspira, seja física ou moral

Letter map: no vs nojo

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

2 ch
no
4 ch
nojo

Role in the sentence - no and nojo

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: no is apronoun and nojoanoun. On the page they differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “no” sits inside “nojo”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 8808, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

no is recorded at frequency rank #15, classified as apron. nojo is at rank #8,793, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˈno.ʒu/.

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 8808, this pair ranks #64,836 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of no vs nojo

Shared letters: no. Private to "no": -. Private to "nojo": j.

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

Known mistypes of this pair

  • nojonjoo · nnojo · nojjo · nooj · onjo

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "no" for "nojo" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "no" is a pronoun and "nojo" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "no" or "nojo" show up more?
"no" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #15 in our Portuguese list, against #8,793 for "nojo". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "no" and "nojo".

  • Full dictionary entry for "no" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "nojo" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #64,836 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "no" and "nojo" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "nojo vs noon". 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 #64,836 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