planovsplantioWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: plano is a adjective, plantio is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“plano” is an adjective and “plantio” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#571
“plano” frequency rank
#10,772
“plantio” frequency rank
11343
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature plano plantio
Definition liso, sem maiores desníveis, nivelado ato ou efeito de plantar

Letter map: plano vs plantio

Shared letters muted; letters that set plano and plantio apart highlighted. Shared run: 5. plano runs 5 letters (CCVCV) against plantio's 7 (CCVCCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
plano
7 ch
plantio

Role in the sentence - plano and plantio

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: plano is anadjective and plantioanoun. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 11343, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

plano is recorded at frequency rank #571, classified as anadj, pronounced /ˈplɐ.nu/. plantio is at rank #10,772, tagged as anoun.

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 11343, this pair ranks #61,523 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of plano vs plantio

Shared letters: alnop. Private to "plano": -. Private to "plantio": it.

"plano" · 5 letters · shape CCVCV  ·  "plantio" · 7 letters · shape CCVCCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • plano ← lpano · palno · planno · plaon · pllano · plnao · pplano
  • plantio ← lpantio · palntio · planito · planntio · plantoi · planttio · platnio · pllantio

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "plano" for "plantio" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "plano" is an adjective and "plantio" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "plano" or "plantio" show up more?
"plano" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #571 in our Portuguese list, against #10,772 for "plantio". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "plano" and "plantio".

  • Full dictionary entry for "plano" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "plantio" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #61,523 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "plano" and "plantio" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "plantio vs platô". 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 #61,523 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