on vs our, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“on” is an adjective and “our” is a pronoun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#675
“on” frequency rank: #7,958
“our” frequency rank: 8633
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	on	our
Definition	ligado, ativo (na internet)	nosso, nossos, da gente

Letter map: on vs our

Shared letters muted; letters that set on and our apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

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our

Part-of-speech tell for on / our

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: on is anadjective and ourapronoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 8633, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

on is recorded at frequency rank #675, classified as anadj. our is at rank #7,958, tagged as apron, pronounced /aʊɚ/, SAMPA: /aU@`/.

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 8633, this pair ranks #65,081 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of on vs our

Shared letters: o. Private to "on": n. Private to "our": ru.

"on" · 2 letters · shape VC · "our" · 3 letters · shape VVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "on" and "our" be used interchangeably?

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

Which is more common, "on" or "our"?

"on" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #675 in our Portuguese list, against #7,958 for "our". 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 "on" and "our".

Full dictionary entry for "on" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "our" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #65,081 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"on" and "our" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "oni vs our". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #65,081 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.