atingido vs atingir, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#3,960
“atingido” frequency rank: #2,555
“atingir” frequency rank: 6515
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	atingido	atingir
Definition	tocado com um projétil	chegar a fim ou a coisa propostos; concretizar objetivo:

Letter map: atingido vs atingir

Shared letters muted; letters that set atingido and atingir apart highlighted. Shared run: 6.

8 ch

atingido

7 ch

atingir

Role in the sentence - atingido and atingir

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: atingido is anadjective and atingiraverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 6515, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

atingido is recorded at frequency rank #3,960, classified as anadj. atingir is at rank #2,555, tagged as averb.

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 6515, this pair ranks #67,906 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of atingido vs atingir

Shared letters: agint. Private to "atingido": do. Private to "atingir": r.

"atingido" · 8 letters · shape VCVCCVCV · "atingir" · 7 letters · shape VCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

atingido ← aitngido · atignido · atingdio · atinggido · atingiddo · atingiod · atinigdo · atinngido
atingir ← aitngir · atignir · atinggir · atingirr · atingri · atinigr · atinngir · atnigir

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "atingido" for "atingir" ever safe?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "atingido" is an adjective and "atingir" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Frequency check: "atingido" vs "atingir" - which ranks higher?

"atingir" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,555 in our Portuguese list, against #3,960 for "atingido". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "atingido" and "atingir".

Full dictionary entry for "atingido" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "atingir" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #67,906 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
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 #67,906 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.