adidovsaviãoConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#31,220
“adido” frequency rank
#2,262
“avião” frequency rank
33482
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature adido avião
Definition que foi acrescentado aparelho mais pesado que o ar empregado em navegação aérea

Letter map: adido vs avião

Shared letters muted; letters that set adido and avião apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. adido (VCVCV) and avião (VCVVV) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

5 ch
adido
5 ch
avião

Role in the sentence - adido and avião

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: adido is anadjective and aviãoanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 33482, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

adido is recorded at frequency rank #31,220, classified as anadj, pronounced /ɐˈʤi.dʊ/. avião is at rank #2,262, 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 33482, this pair ranks #34,029 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of adido vs avião

Shared letters: aio. Private to "adido": d. Private to "avião": vã.

"adido" · 5 letters · shape VCVCV  ·  "avião" · 5 letters · shape VCVVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • adido ← addido · addio · adiddo · adiod · aiddo · daido

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "adido" and "avião" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "adido" is an adjective and "avião" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "adido" vs "avião" - which ranks higher?
"avião" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,262 in our Portuguese list, against #31,220 for "adido". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

You've compared "adido" and "avião". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "adido" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "avião" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #34,029 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "adido" and "avião" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "adido vs alado". 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 #34,029 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