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

#9,134
“acerto” frequency rank
#22,853
“adepto” frequency rank
31987
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature acerto adepto
Definition ato ou efeito de fazer certo ou realizar corretamente partidário

Letter map: acerto vs adepto

Shared letters muted; letters that set acerto and adepto apart highlighted. Shared run: 4.

6 ch
acerto
6 ch
adepto

Corpus notes: acerto and adepto

acerto and adepto 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 31987, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

acerto is recorded at frequency rank #9,134, classified as anoun, pronounced /ɐ.ˈseɾ.tu/. adepto is at rank #22,853, 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 31987, this pair ranks #35,943 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of acerto vs adepto

Shared letters: aeot. Private to "acerto": cr. Private to "adepto": dp.

"acerto" · 6 letters · shape VCVCCV  ·  "adepto" · 6 letters · shape VCVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • acertoaccerto · acerot · acerrto · acertto · acetro · acreto · aecrto · caerto
  • adeptoaddepto · adepot · adeppto · adeptto · adetpo · adpeto · aedpto · daepto

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "acerto" and "adepto" 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.
Which is more common, "acerto" or "adepto"?
"acerto" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #9,134 in our Portuguese list, against #22,853 for "adepto". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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  • Full dictionary entry for "acerto" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "adepto" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #35,943 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "acerto" and "adepto" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "aceno vs acerto". 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 #35,943 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