adeptovsafetoTell them apart

Quick tell: adepto is a noun, afeto is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#22,853
“adepto” frequency rank
#9,612
“afeto” frequency rank
32465
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature adepto afeto
Definition partidário à feição, afeiçoado; dedicado; específico para:

Letter map: adepto vs afeto

Shared letters muted; letters that set adepto and afeto apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. adepto runs 6 letters (VCVCCV) against afeto's 5 (VCVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
adepto
5 ch
afeto

Role in the sentence - adepto and afeto

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: adepto is anoun and afetoanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 32465, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

adepto is recorded at frequency rank #22,853, classified as anoun. afeto is at rank #9,612, tagged as anadj, pronounced /ɐ.ˈfɛ.tu/.

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 32465, this pair ranks #35,340 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of adepto vs afeto

Shared letters: aeot. Private to "adepto": dp. Private to "afeto": f.

"adepto" · 6 letters · shape VCVCCV  ·  "afeto" · 5 letters · shape VCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • adepto ← addepto · adepot · adeppto · adeptto · adetpo · adpeto · aedpto · daepto
  • afeto ← aefto · afeot · afetto · affeto · afteo · faeto

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "adepto" and "afeto" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "adepto" is a noun and "afeto" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "adepto" vs "afeto" - which ranks higher?
"afeto" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #9,612 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

You've compared "adepto" and "afeto". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "adepto" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "afeto" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #35,340 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "adepto" and "afeto" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "aceno vs afeto". 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 #35,340 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