aladovsalunoWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#47,708
“alado” frequency rank
#4,036
“aluno” frequency rank
51744
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature alado aluno
Definition que tem asas pessoa que está aprendendo

Letter map: alado vs aluno

Shared letters muted; letters that set alado and aluno apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. alado and aluno follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (VCVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

5 ch
alado
5 ch
aluno

Part-of-speech tell for alado / aluno

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: alado is anadjective and alunoanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 51744, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

alado is recorded at frequency rank #47,708, classified as anadj, pronounced /a.ˈla.du/. aluno is at rank #4,036, 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 51744, this pair ranks #13,355 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of alado vs aluno

Shared letters: alo. Private to "alado": d. Private to "aluno": nu.

"alado" · 5 letters · shape VCVCV  ·  "aluno" · 5 letters · shape VCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • alado ← aaldo · aladdo · alaod · aldao · allado · laado
  • aluno ← alluno · alnuo · alunno · aluon · aulno · launo

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "alado" and "aluno" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "alado" is an adjective and "aluno" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "alado" or "aluno" show up more?
"aluno" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #4,036 in our Portuguese list, against #47,708 for "alado". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Pair "alado" vs "aluno" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "alado" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "aluno" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #13,355 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "alado" and "aluno" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "alado vs álamo". 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 #13,355 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