truevsturnêWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#9,418
“true” frequency rank
#5,799
“turnê” frequency rank
15217
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature true turnê
Definition verdadeiro, verídico passagem de cunho comercial e artístico por um circuito de localidades já estipuladas as quais são pontuadas por apresentação com data certa

Letter map: true vs turnê

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

4 ch
true
5 ch
turnê

Part-of-speech tell for true / turnê

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: true is anadjective and turnêanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 15217, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

true is recorded at frequency rank #9,418, classified as anadj, pronounced /truː/. turnê is at rank #5,799, 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 15217, this pair ranks #56,660 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of true vs turnê

Shared letters: rtu. Private to "true": e. Private to "turnê": nê.

"true" · 4 letters · shape CCVV  ·  "turnê" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • true ← rtue · treu · trrue · ttrue · ture

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "true" and "turnê" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "true" is an adjective and "turnê" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "true" or "turnê"?
"turnê" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #5,799 in our Portuguese list, against #9,418 for "true". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Pair "true" vs "turnê" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "true" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "turnê" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #56,660 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "true" and "turnê" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "tique vs true". 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 #56,660 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