adegavsadesãoWhat's the difference?

Which to use

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

#20,768
“adega” frequency rank
#6,364
“adesão” frequency rank
27132
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature adega adesão
Definition lugar onde o vinho é armazenado ato, processo ou efeito de aderir

Letter map: adega vs adesão

Shared letters muted; letters that set adega and adesão apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. adega runs 5 letters (VCVCV) against adesão's 6 (VCVCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
adega
6 ch
adesão

Corpus notes: adega and adesão

adega and adesão 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 differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 27132, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

adega is recorded at frequency rank #20,768, classified as anoun. adesão is at rank #6,364, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ɐ.dɨ.ˈzɐ̃w̃/.

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 27132, this pair ranks #41,881 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of adega vs adesão

Shared letters: ade. Private to "adega": g. Private to "adesão": osã.

"adega" · 5 letters · shape VCVCV  ·  "adesão" · 6 letters · shape VCVCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • adega ← addega · adeag · adegga · adgea · aedga · daega

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "adega" and "adesão" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length, 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 "adega" or "adesão" show up more?
"adesão" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #6,364 in our Portuguese list, against #20,768 for "adega". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "adega" and "adesão". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "adega" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "adesão" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #41,881 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "adega" and "adesão" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "adega vs ateia". 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 #41,881 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