aldeiavsalemãTell them apart

Quick tell: aldeia is a noun, alemã is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#2,300
“aldeia” frequency rank
#4,970
“alemã” frequency rank
7270
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature aldeia alemã
Definition pequena povoação rústica sem jurisdição própria forma feminina de alemão

Letter map: aldeia vs alemã

Shared letters muted; letters that set aldeia and alemã apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. aldeia runs 6 letters (VCCVVV) against alemã's 5 (VCVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
aldeia
5 ch
alemã

Part-of-speech tell for aldeia / alemã

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: aldeia is anoun and alemãanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 7270, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

aldeia is recorded at frequency rank #2,300, classified as anoun, pronounced /aɫ.ˈdɐj.ɐ/. alemã is at rank #4,970, 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 7270, this pair ranks #66,905 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of aldeia vs alemã

Shared letters: ael. Private to "aldeia": di. Private to "alemã": mã.

"aldeia" · 6 letters · shape VCCVVV  ·  "alemã" · 5 letters · shape VCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • aldeia ← adleia · alddeia · aldeai · aldiea · aledia · alldeia · ladeia

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "aldeia" and "alemã" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "aldeia" is a noun and "alemã" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "aldeia" vs "alemã" - which ranks higher?
"aldeia" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,300 in our Portuguese list, against #4,970 for "alemã". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pair "aldeia" vs "alemã" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "aldeia" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "alemã" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #66,905 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "aldeia" and "alemã" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "aldeia vs apneia". 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 #66,905 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