aladovsanãoConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#47,708
“alado” frequency rank
#10,648
“anão” frequency rank
58356
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature alado anão
Definition que tem asas indivíduo de estatura muito mais baixa que a normal

Letter map: alado vs anão

Shared letters muted; letters that set alado and anão apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. alado runs 5 letters (VCVCV) against anão's 4 (VCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
alado
4 ch
anão

Grammar separator: alado vs anão

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: alado is anadjective and anãoanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 58356, 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/. anão is at rank #10,648, 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 58356, this pair ranks #8,790 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of alado vs anão

Shared letters: ao. Private to "alado": dl. Private to "anão": nã.

"alado" · 5 letters · shape VCVCV  ·  "anão" · 4 letters · shape VCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • alado ← aaldo · aladdo · alaod · aldao · allado · laado

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "alado" and "anão" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "alado" is an adjective and "anão" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "alado" or "anão" show up more?
"anão" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #10,648 in our Portuguese list, against #47,708 for "alado". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pair "alado" vs "anão" 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 "anão" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #8,790 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "alado" and "anão" 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 #8,790 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