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Which to use

“rabino” and “rádio” are a confusable Portuguese pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#17,122
“rabino” frequency rank
#857
“rádio” frequency rank
17979
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature rabino rádio
Definition líder religioso judaico elemento químico de símbolo Ra, possui o número atômico 88 e massa atômica relativa 226,025 u; é um metal alcalino terroso, branco prateado, altamente radioativo; ocorre em todos os minérios de urânio, e é produzido por decaimento radioativo; é utilizado na medicina para tratamento de câncer e, em laboratórios, como fonte de neutrons para análise de materiais

Letter map: rabino vs rádio

Shared letters muted; letters that set rabino and rádio apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. rabino runs 6 letters (CVCVCV) against rádio's 5 (CVCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
rabino
5 ch
rádio

Pair insight - rabino / rádio

rabino and rádio are indexed as a confusable Portuguese pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 17979, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

rabino is recorded at frequency rank #17,122, classified as anoun, pronounced /Rɐ.ˈbi.nu/. rádio is at rank #857, 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 17979, this pair ranks #53,125 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of rabino vs rádio

Shared letters: ior. Private to "rabino": abn. Private to "rádio": dá.

"rabino" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV  ·  "rádio" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • rabino ← arbino · rabbino · rabinno · rabion · rabnio · raibno · rbaino · rrabino

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "rabino" for "rádio" ever safe?
No. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Which is more common, "rabino" or "rádio"?
"rádio" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #857 in our Portuguese list, against #17,122 for "rabino". 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 "rabino" and "rádio".

  • Full dictionary entry for "rabino" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "rádio" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #53,125 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "rabino" and "rádio" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "rabi vs rabino". 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 #53,125 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