abertovsatentoConfusable pair

Which to use

“aberto” and “atento” are a confusable Portuguese pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#1,300
“aberto” frequency rank
#7,864
“atento” frequency rank
9164
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature aberto atento
Definition não fechado ou barrado que presta atenção

Letter map: aberto vs atento

Shared letters muted; letters that set aberto and atento apart highlighted. Shared run: 4.

6 ch
aberto
6 ch
atento

Corpus notes: aberto and atento

aberto and atento are indexed as a confusable Portuguese pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 9164, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

aberto is recorded at frequency rank #1,300, classified as anadj. atento is at rank #7,864, tagged as anadj, pronounced /ɐ.ˈtẽ.tu/.

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 9164, this pair ranks #64,362 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of aberto vs atento

Shared letters: aeot. Private to "aberto": br. Private to "atento": n.

"aberto" · 6 letters · shape VCVCCV  ·  "atento" · 6 letters · shape VCVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • abertoabberto · aberot · aberrto · abertto · abetro · abreto · aebrto · baerto
  • atentoaetnto · atennto · atenot · atentto · atetno · atneto · attento · taento

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "aberto" and "atento" be used interchangeably?
No. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Frequency check: "aberto" vs "atento" - which ranks higher?
"aberto" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,300 in our Portuguese list, against #7,864 for "atento". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "aberto" and "atento". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "aberto" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "atento" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #64,362 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "aberto" and "atento" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "aceno vs atento". 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 #64,362 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