arrendadovsarrendarWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: arrendado is a adjective, arrendar is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“arrendado” is an adjective and “arrendar” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#47,732
“arrendado” frequency rank
#39,476
“arrendar” frequency rank
87208
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature arrendado arrendar
Definition que se arrendou dar ou tomar de renda

Letter map: arrendado vs arrendar

Shared letters muted; letters that set arrendado and arrendar apart highlighted. Shared run: 7. arrendado runs 9 letters (VCCVCCVCV) against arrendar's 8 (VCCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

9 ch
arrendado
8 ch
arrendar

Role in the sentence - arrendado and arrendar

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: arrendado is anadjective and arrendaraverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 87208, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

arrendado is recorded at frequency rank #47,732, classified as anadj. arrendar is at rank #39,476, tagged as averb, pronounced /ɐ.Rẽ.ˈdaɾ/.

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 87208, this pair ranks #506 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of arrendado vs arrendar

Shared letters: adenr. Private to "arrendado": o. Private to "arrendar": -.

"arrendado" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCCVCV  ·  "arrendar" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • arrendadoarendado · arerndado · arrednado · arrenaddo · arrendaddo · arrendaod · arrenddado · arrenddao
  • arrendararendar · arerndar · arrednar · arrenadr · arrendarr · arrenddar · arrendra · arrenndar

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "arrendado" and "arrendar" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "arrendado" is an adjective and "arrendar" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "arrendado" or "arrendar"?
"arrendar" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #39,476 in our Portuguese list, against #47,732 for "arrendado". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've compared "arrendado" and "arrendar". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "arrendado" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "arrendar" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #506 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "arrendado" and "arrendar" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "abrandar vs arrendar". 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 #506 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