acabadovsatacadoTell them apart

Which to use

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

#5,157
“acabado” frequency rank
#5,063
“atacado” frequency rank
10220
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature acabado atacado
Definition concluído, pronto atado com atacador

Letter map: acabado vs atacado

Shared letters muted; letters that set acabado and atacado apart highlighted. Shared run: 5. acabado and atacado follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (VCVCVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

7 ch
acabado
7 ch
atacado

Spelling & dictionary notes on acabado vs atacado

acabado and atacado 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 10220, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

acabado is recorded at frequency rank #5,157, classified as anadj. atacado is at rank #5,063, tagged as anadj, pronounced /ɐ.tɐ.ˈka.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 10220, this pair ranks #62,949 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of acabado vs atacado

Shared letters: acdo. Private to "acabado": b. Private to "atacado": t.

"acabado" · 7 letters · shape VCVCVCV  ·  "atacado" · 7 letters · shape VCVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • acabadoaacbado · acaabdo · acabaddo · acabaod · acabbado · acabdao · acbaado · accabado
  • atacadoaatcado · ataacdo · atacaddo · atacaod · ataccado · atacdao · atcaado · attacado

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "acabado" and "atacado" mean the same thing in a sentence?
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: "acabado" vs "atacado" - which ranks higher?
"atacado" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #5,063 in our Portuguese list, against #5,157 for "acabado". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've compared "acabado" and "atacado". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "acabado" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "atacado" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #62,949 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "acabado" and "atacado" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "acabado vs achatado". 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 #62,949 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