tuavstudoTell them apart

Quick tell: tua is a adjective, tudo is a pronoun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“tua” is an adjective and “tudo” is a pronoun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#662
“tua” frequency rank
#61
“tudo” frequency rank
723
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature tua tudo
Definition que tem você como objeto todas as coisas

Letter map: tua vs tudo

Shared letters muted; letters that set tua and tudo apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

3 ch
tua
4 ch
tudo

Part-of-speech tell for tua / tudo

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: tua is anadjective and tudoapronoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 723, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

tua is recorded at frequency rank #662, classified as anadj. tudo is at rank #61, tagged as apron, pronounced /ˈtu.du/.

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 723, this pair ranks #74,925 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of tua vs tudo

Shared letters: tu. Private to "tua": a. Private to "tudo": do.

"tua" · 3 letters · shape CVV  ·  "tudo" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • tudotduo · ttudo · tuddo · tuod · utdo

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "tua" for "tudo" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "tua" is an adjective and "tudo" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "tua" or "tudo"?
"tudo" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #61 in our Portuguese list, against #662 for "tua". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Pair "tua" vs "tudo" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "tua" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "tudo" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #74,925 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "tua" and "tudo" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "tua 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 #74,925 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