aliadovsavaliadoTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#5,163
“aliado” frequency rank
#14,075
“avaliado” frequency rank
19238
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature aliado avaliado
Definition entidade (pessoa, time, estado, etc) que se aliou a outra entidade que foi objeto de ou sujeito a avaliação

Letter map: aliado vs avaliado

Shared letters muted; letters that set aliado and avaliado apart highlighted. Shared run: 6. aliado runs 6 letters (VCVVCV) against avaliado's 8 (VCVCVVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
aliado
8 ch
avaliado

Grammar separator: aliado vs avaliado

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: aliado is anoun and avaliadoanadjective. On the page they differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “aliado” sits inside “avaliado”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 19238, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

aliado is recorded at frequency rank #5,163, classified as anoun. avaliado is at rank #14,075, tagged as anadj, pronounced /ɐ.vɐ.ˈlja.du/.

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 19238, this pair ranks #51,552 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of aliado vs avaliado

Shared letters: adilo. Private to "aliado": -. Private to "avaliado": v.

"aliado" · 6 letters · shape VCVVCV  ·  "avaliado" · 8 letters · shape VCVCVVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • aliado ← ailado · alaido · aliaddo · aliaod · alidao · alliado · laiado
  • avaliado ← aavliado · availado · avalaido · avaliaddo · avaliaod · avalidao · avalliado · avlaiado

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "aliado" for "avaliado" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "aliado" is a noun and "avaliado" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "aliado" or "avaliado"?
"aliado" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #5,163 in our Portuguese list, against #14,075 for "avaliado". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pair "aliado" vs "avaliado" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "aliado" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "avaliado" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #51,552 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "aliado" and "avaliado" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "avaliado vs avariado". 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 #51,552 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