afegãovsafogadoWhich spelling fits?

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

#28,430
“afegão” frequency rank
#22,856
“afogado” frequency rank
51286
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature afegão afogado
Definition de ou relativo ao Afeganistão, país asiático que se afogou

Letter map: afegão vs afogado

Shared letters muted; letters that set afegão and afogado apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. afegão runs 6 letters (VCVCVV) against afogado's 7 (VCVCVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
afegão
7 ch
afogado

Spelling & dictionary notes on afegão vs afogado

afegão and afogado 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 51286, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

afegão is recorded at frequency rank #28,430, classified as anadj, pronounced /a.feˈɡɐ̃w̃/ [a.feˈɡɐ̃ʊ̯̃]. afogado is at rank #22,856, 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 51286, this pair ranks #13,722 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of afegão vs afogado

Shared letters: afgo. Private to "afegão": . Private to "afogado": d.

"afegão" · 6 letters · shape VCVCVV  ·  "afogado" · 7 letters · shape VCVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • afogadoaffogado · afgoado · afoagdo · afogaddo · afogaod · afogdao · afoggado · aofgado

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "afegão" and "afogado" 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.
Frequency check: "afegão" vs "afogado" - which ranks higher?
"afogado" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #22,856 in our Portuguese list, against #28,430 for "afegão". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "afegão" and "afogado".

  • Full dictionary entry for "afegão" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "afogado" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #13,722 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "afegão" and "afogado" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "afegão vs alegro". 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 #13,722 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