afetadovsagitadoTell them apart

Which to use

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

#10,641
“afetado” frequency rank
#14,506
“agitado” frequency rank
25147
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature afetado agitado
Definition que mostra afetação, que não é natural ou é exagerado abalado

Letter map: afetado vs agitado

Shared letters muted; letters that set afetado and agitado apart highlighted. Shared run: 5. afetado and agitado follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (VCVCVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

7 ch
afetado
7 ch
agitado

Pair insight - afetado / agitado

afetado and agitado 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 share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 25147, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

afetado is recorded at frequency rank #10,641, classified as anadj. agitado is at rank #14,506, tagged as anadj, pronounced [a.ʒi.ˈta.do].

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 25147, this pair ranks #44,238 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of afetado vs agitado

Shared letters: adot. Private to "afetado": ef. Private to "agitado": gi.

"afetado" · 7 letters · shape VCVCVCV  ·  "agitado" · 7 letters · shape VCVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • afetadoaeftado · afeatdo · afetaddo · afetaod · afetdao · afettado · affetado · afteado
  • agitadoaggitado · agiatdo · agitaddo · agitaod · agitdao · agittado · agtiado · aigtado

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "afetado" and "agitado" be used interchangeably?
No. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Frequency check: "afetado" vs "agitado" - which ranks higher?
"afetado" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #10,641 in our Portuguese list, against #14,506 for "agitado". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "afetado" and "agitado". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "afetado" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "agitado" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #44,238 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "afetado" and "agitado" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "agitado vs agitador". 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 #44,238 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