abortovsaporteWhat's the difference?

Which to use

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

#4,688
“aborto” frequency rank
#40,427
“aporte” frequency rank
45115
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature aborto aporte
Definition remoção ou expulsão prematura de um embrião ou feto do útero, resultando na sua morte ou sendo por esta causada transferência de valor monetário

Letter map: aborto vs aporte

Shared letters muted; letters that set aborto and aporte apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. aborto and aporte follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (VCVCCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

6 ch
aborto
6 ch
aporte

Pair insight - aborto / aporte

aborto and aporte 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 45115, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

aborto is recorded at frequency rank #4,688, classified as anoun. aporte is at rank #40,427, 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 45115, this pair ranks #20,308 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of aborto vs aporte

Shared letters: aort. Private to "aborto": b. Private to "aporte": ep.

"aborto" · 6 letters · shape VCVCCV  ·  "aporte" · 6 letters · shape VCVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • aborto ← abborto · aborot · aborrto · abortto · abotro · abroto · aobrto · baorto
  • aporte ← aoprte · aporet · aporrte · aportte · apotre · apporte · aprote · paorte

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "aborto" for "aporte" ever safe?
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.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "aborto" or "aporte" show up more?
"aborto" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #4,688 in our Portuguese list, against #40,427 for "aporte". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Pair "aborto" vs "aporte" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "aborto" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "aporte" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #20,308 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "aborto" and "aporte" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "aorta vs aporte". 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 #20,308 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