agitadovsagitadorConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#14,506
“agitado” frequency rank
#49,273
“agitador” frequency rank
63779
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature agitado agitador
Definition abalado pessoa do sexo masculino que agita, promove ou incita agitação

Letter map: agitado vs agitador

Shared letters muted; letters that set agitado and agitador apart highlighted. Shared run: 7. agitado runs 7 letters (VCVCVCV) against agitador's 8 (VCVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
agitado
8 ch
agitador

Grammar separator: agitado vs agitador

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: agitado is anadjective and agitadoranoun. On the page they differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “agitado” sits inside “agitador”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 63779, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

agitado is recorded at frequency rank #14,506, classified as anadj, pronounced [a.ʒi.ˈta.do]. agitador is at rank #49,273, 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 63779, this pair ranks #6,046 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of agitado vs agitador

Shared letters: adgiot. Private to "agitado": -. Private to "agitador": r.

"agitado" · 7 letters · shape VCVCVCV  ·  "agitador" · 8 letters · shape VCVCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • agitadoaggitado · agiatdo · agitaddo · agitaod · agitdao · agittado · agtiado · aigtado
  • agitadoraggitador · agiatdor · agitaddor · agitadorr · agitadro · agitaodr · agitdaor · agittador

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "agitado" and "agitador" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "agitado" is an adjective and "agitador" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "agitado" vs "agitador" - which ranks higher?
"agitado" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #14,506 in our Portuguese list, against #49,273 for "agitador". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "agitado" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "agitador" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #6,046 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "agitado" and "agitador" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "agitador vs animador". 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 #6,046 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