tocouvstodosWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#4,025
“tocou” frequency rank
#67
“todos” frequency rank
4092
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature tocou todos
Definition terceira pessoa do singular do pretérito perfeito do indicativo do verbo tocar o conjunto dos membros ou participantes de algo

Letter map: tocou vs todos

Shared letters muted; letters that set tocou and todos apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

5 ch
tocou
5 ch
todos

Role in the sentence - tocou and todos

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: tocou is averb and todosapronoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 4092, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

tocou is recorded at frequency rank #4,025, classified as averb, pronounced /to.ˈko/. 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 4092, this pair ranks #70,923 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of tocou vs todos

Shared letters: ot. Private to "tocou": cu. Private to "todos": ds.

"tocou" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV  ·  "todos" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • tocouotcou · tcoou · toccou · tocuo · toocu · ttocou
  • todosotdos · tdoos · toddos · todoss · todso · toods · ttodos

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "tocou" and "todos" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "tocou" is a verb and "todos" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "tocou" or "todos" show up more?
"todos" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #67 in our Portuguese list, against #4,025 for "tocou". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

You've compared "tocou" and "todos". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "tocou" 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 #70,923 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "tocou" and "todos" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "teco vs tocou". 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 #70,923 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