Which to use
“adaptação” is a noun and “adaptado” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #4,118
- “adaptação” frequency rank
- #9,432
- “adaptado” frequency rank
- 13550
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | adaptação | adaptado |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | ação de adaptar ou adaptar-se, acomodação: | ajustado; que se adaptou |
Letter map: adaptação vs adaptado
Shared letters muted; letters that set adaptação and adaptado apart highlighted. Shared run: 7. adaptação runs 9 letters (VCVCCVCVV) against adaptado's 8 (VCVCCVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Role in the sentence - adaptação and adaptado
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: adaptação is anoun and adaptadoanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 13550, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
adaptação is recorded at frequency rank #4,118, classified as anoun, pronounced /ɐ.dɐp.tɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/. adaptado is at rank #9,432, tagged as anadj.
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 13550, this pair ranks #58,748 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of adaptação vs adaptado
Shared letters: adopt. Private to "adaptação": ãç. Private to "adaptado": -.
"adaptação" · 9 letters · shape VCVCCVCVV · "adaptado" · 8 letters · shape VCVCCVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
- adaptado ← aadptado · adapatdo · adapptado · adaptaddo · adaptaod · adaptdao · adapttado · adatpado
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "adaptação" for "adaptado" ever safe?
Which is more common, "adaptação" or "adaptado"?
What to do next
You've compared "adaptação" and "adaptado". Here's where to go from here.
- Full dictionary entry for "adaptação" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "adaptado" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #58,748 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "adaptação" and "adaptado" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "adaptado vs adiantado". 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 #58,748 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.