no vs nua, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#15
“no” frequency rank: #7,808
“nua” frequency rank: 7823
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	no	nua
Definition	forma enclítica do pronome o quando precedido de forma verbal terminada em som nasal	feminino de nu

Letter map: no vs nua

Shared letters muted; letters that set no and nua apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

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nua

Part-of-speech tell for no / nua

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: no is apronoun and nuaanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 7823, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

no is recorded at frequency rank #15, classified as apron. nua is at rank #7,808, tagged as anadj, pronounced /ˈnu.ɐ/.

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 7823, this pair ranks #66,209 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of no vs nua

Shared letters: n. Private to "no": o. Private to "nua": au.

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "no" and "nua" mean the same thing in a sentence?

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

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

"no" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #15 in our Portuguese list, against #7,808 for "nua". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

You've compared "no" and "nua". Here's where to go from here.

Full dictionary entry for "no" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "nua" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #66,209 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"no" and "nua" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "nua vs null". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #66,209 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.