todosvstotóTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#67
“todos” frequency rank
#37,112
“totó” frequency rank
37179
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature todos totó
Definition o conjunto dos membros ou participantes de algo cão

Letter map: todos vs totó

Shared letters muted; letters that set todos and totó apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. todos runs 5 letters (CVCVC) against totó's 4 (CVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
todos
4 ch
totó

Role in the sentence - todos and totó

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: todos is apronoun and totóanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 37179, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

todos is recorded at frequency rank #67, classified as apron. totó is at rank #37,112, tagged as anoun, pronounced /tɔ.ˈtɔ/.

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 37179, this pair ranks #29,490 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of todos vs totó

Shared letters: ot. Private to "todos": ds. Private to "totó": ó.

"todos" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC  ·  "totó" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • todos ← otdos · tdoos · toddos · todoss · todso · toods · ttodos

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "todos" for "totó" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "todos" is a pronoun and "totó" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "todos" or "totó"?
"todos" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #67 in our Portuguese list, against #37,112 for "totó". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Pair "todos" vs "totó" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "todos" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "totó" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #29,490 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "todos" and "totó" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "totó vs tufo". 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 #29,490 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