acordevsacordeãoConfusable pair

Quick tell: acorde is a adjective, acordeão is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“acorde” is an adjective and “acordeão” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#11,201
“acorde” frequency rank
#46,144
“acordeão” frequency rank
57345
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature acorde acordeão
Definition que está em harmonia com outro instrumento ou voz instrumento musical composto de teclado, fole que direcionam o ar por palhetas metálicas gerando som

Letter map: acorde vs acordeão

Shared letters muted; letters that set acorde and acordeão apart highlighted. Shared run: 6. acorde runs 6 letters (VCVCCV) against acordeão's 8 (VCVCCVVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
acorde
8 ch
acordeão

Grammar separator: acorde vs acordeão

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: acorde is anadjective and acordeãoanoun. On the page they differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “acorde” sits inside “acordeão”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 57345, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

acorde is recorded at frequency rank #11,201, classified as anadj, pronounced /ɐ.ˈkɔɾ.dɨ/. acordeão is at rank #46,144, 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 57345, this pair ranks #9,409 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of acorde vs acordeão

Shared letters: acdeor. Private to "acorde": -. Private to "acordeão": ã.

"acorde" · 6 letters · shape VCVCCV  ·  "acordeão" · 8 letters · shape VCVCCVVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • acorde ← accorde · acodre · acordde · acored · acorrde · acrode · aocrde · caorde

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "acorde" and "acordeão" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "acorde" is an adjective and "acordeão" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "acorde" or "acordeão" show up more?
"acorde" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #11,201 in our Portuguese list, against #46,144 for "acordeão". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Pair "acorde" vs "acordeão" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "acorde" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "acordeão" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #9,409 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "acorde" and "acordeão" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "accord vs acorde". 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 #9,409 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