aportevsarteTell them apart

Which to use

“aporte” and “arte” are a confusable Portuguese pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#40,427
“aporte” frequency rank
#682
“arte” frequency rank
41109
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature aporte arte
Definition transferência de valor monetário forma de expressão subjetiva do ser humano

Letter map: aporte vs arte

Shared letters muted; letters that set aporte and arte apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. aporte runs 6 letters (VCVCCV) against arte's 4 (VCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
aporte
4 ch
arte

Pair insight - aporte / arte

aporte and arte are indexed as a confusable Portuguese pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 41109, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

aporte is recorded at frequency rank #40,427, classified as anoun. arte is at rank #682, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˈaxt͡ʃi/.

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 41109, this pair ranks #24,881 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of aporte vs arte

Shared letters: aert. Private to "aporte": op. Private to "arte": -.

"aporte" · 6 letters · shape VCVCCV  ·  "arte" · 4 letters · shape VCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • aporte ← aoprte · aporet · aporrte · aportte · apotre · apporte · aprote · paorte
  • arte ← aret · arrte · artte · atre

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "aporte" for "arte" ever safe?
No. They differ by 2 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Frequency check: "aporte" vs "arte" - which ranks higher?
"arte" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #682 in our Portuguese list, against #40,427 for "aporte". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "aporte" and "arte".

  • Full dictionary entry for "aporte" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "arte" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #24,881 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "aporte" and "arte" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "aorta vs aporte". 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 #24,881 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