todovstroçoWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#111
“todo” frequency rank
#11,175
“troço” frequency rank
11286
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature todo troço
Definition completo traste, tralha

Where the eye mixes todo and troço

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence.

4 ch
todo
5 ch
troço

Visual trap between todo and troço

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: todo is /ˈto.du/ while troço is /ˈtɾo.su/. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (adjective vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 11286, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

todo is recorded at frequency rank #111, classified as anadj, pronounced /ˈto.du/. troço is at rank #11,175, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˈtɾo.su/.

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 11286, this pair ranks #61,600 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of todo vs troço

Shared letters: ot. Private to "todo": d. Private to "troço": .

"todo" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "troço" · 5 letters · shape CCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • todootdo · tdoo · toddo · tood · ttodo

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "todo" and "troço" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "todo" is an adjective and "troço" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "todo" vs "troço" - which ranks higher?
"todo" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #111 in our Portuguese list, against #11,175 for "troço". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Eye-level mix-up between "todo" and "troço" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "todo" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "troço" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #61,600 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "todo" and "troço" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "teco vs troço". 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 #61,600 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