aliadovsávidoWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#5,163
“aliado” frequency rank
#31,211
“ávido” frequency rank
36374
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature aliado ávido
Definition entidade (pessoa, time, estado, etc) que se aliou a outra entidade que quer ardentemente

Letter map: aliado vs ávido

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

6 ch
aliado
5 ch
ávido

Grammar separator: aliado vs ávido

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: aliado is anoun and ávidoanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 36374, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

aliado is recorded at frequency rank #5,163, classified as anoun. ávido is at rank #31,211, tagged as anadj, pronounced /ˈa.vi.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 36374, this pair ranks #30,458 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of aliado vs ávido

Shared letters: dio. Private to "aliado": al. Private to "ávido": vá.

"aliado" · 6 letters · shape VCVVCV  ·  "ávido" · 5 letters · shape VCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • aliado ← ailado · alaido · aliaddo · aliaod · alidao · alliado · laiado

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "aliado" for "ávido" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "aliado" is a noun and "ávido" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "aliado" or "ávido" show up more?
"aliado" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #5,163 in our Portuguese list, against #31,211 for "ávido". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Pair "aliado" vs "ávido" 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 "ávido" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #30,458 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "aliado" and "ávido" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "alado vs ávido". 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 #30,458 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