tidosvstodosWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: tidos is a verb, todos is a pronoun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“tidos” is a verb and “todos” is a pronoun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#25,158
“tidos” frequency rank
#67
“todos” frequency rank
25225
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature tidos todos
Definition masculino plural do particípio passado do verbo ter o conjunto dos membros ou participantes de algo

Letter map: tidos vs todos

Shared letters muted; letters that set tidos and todos apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. tidos and todos follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

5 ch
tidos
5 ch
todos

Grammar separator: tidos vs todos

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: tidos is averb and todosapronoun. On the page they differ by a single letter - i in “tidos” becomes o in “todos”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 25225, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

tidos is recorded at frequency rank #25,158, classified as averb. todos is at rank #67, tagged as apron.

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 25225, this pair ranks #44,136 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of tidos vs todos

Shared letters: dost. Private to "tidos": i. Private to "todos": -.

"tidos" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC  ·  "todos" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • tidos ← itdos · tdios · tiddos · tidoss · tidso · tiods · ttidos
  • todos ← otdos · tdoos · toddos · todoss · todso · toods · ttodos

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "tidos" for "todos" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "tidos" is a verb and "todos" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "tidos" or "todos" show up more?
"todos" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #67 in our Portuguese list, against #25,158 for "tidos". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "tidos" and "todos".

  • Full dictionary entry for "tidos" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "todos" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #44,136 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "tidos" and "todos" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "tidos vs tifo". 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 #44,136 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