per vs put, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“per” is a preposition and “put” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#5,775
“per” frequency rank: #18,961
“put” frequency rank: 24736
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	per	put
Definition	por	pôr, colocar

Letter map: per vs put

Shared letters muted; letters that set per and put apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

3 ch

per

3 ch

put

Part-of-speech tell for per / put

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: per is apreposition and putaverb. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 24736, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

per is recorded at frequency rank #5,775, classified as aprep. put is at rank #18,961, tagged as averb, pronounced /pʊt/.

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 24736, this pair ranks #44,791 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of per vs put

Shared letters: p. Private to "per": er. Private to "put": tu.

"per" · 3 letters · shape CVC · "put" · 3 letters · shape CVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "per" and "put" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "per" is a preposition and "put" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Which is more common, "per" or "put"?

"per" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #5,775 in our Portuguese list, against #18,961 for "put". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

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Full dictionary entry for "per" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "put" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #44,791 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"per" and "put" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "pix vs put". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #44,791 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.