noivsnoiseWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: noi is a pronoun, noise is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“noi” is a pronoun and “noise” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#36,563
“noi” frequency rank
#23,423
“noise” frequency rank
59986
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature noi noise
Definition nós discussão, argumento

Letter map: noi vs noise

Shared letters muted; letters that set noi and noise apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. noi runs 3 letters (CVV) against noise's 5 (CVVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

3 ch
noi
5 ch
noise

Part-of-speech tell for noi / noise

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: noi is apronoun and noiseanoun. On the page they differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “noi” sits inside “noise”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 59986, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

noi is recorded at frequency rank #36,563, classified as apron. noise is at rank #23,423, tagged as anoun, pronounced /nwaz/.

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 59986, this pair ranks #7,902 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of noi vs noise

Shared letters: ino. Private to "noi": -. Private to "noise": es.

"noi" · 3 letters · shape CVV  ·  "noise" · 5 letters · shape CVVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • noise ← niose · nnoise · noies · noisse · nosie · onise

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "noi" and "noise" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "noi" is a pronoun and "noise" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "noi" vs "noise" - which ranks higher?
"noise" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #23,423 in our Portuguese list, against #36,563 for "noi". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pair "noi" vs "noise" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "noi" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "noise" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #7,902 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "noi" and "noise" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "noi 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 #7,902 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