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Which to use

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

#2,990
“aumenta” frequency rank
#1,560
“aumentar” frequency rank
4550
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature aumenta aumentar
Definition terceira pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo aumentar tornar maior, ampliar:

Letter map: aumenta vs aumentar

Shared letters muted; letters that set aumenta and aumentar apart highlighted. Shared run: 7.

7 ch
aumenta
8 ch
aumentar

Pair insight - aumenta / aumentar

aumenta and aumentar 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 1 extra letter(s) - “aumenta” sits inside “aumentar”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 4550, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

aumenta is recorded at frequency rank #2,990, classified as averb. aumentar is at rank #1,560, tagged as averb, pronounced /aw.mẽ.ˈtaɾ/.

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 4550, this pair ranks #70,325 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of aumenta vs aumentar

Shared letters: aemntu. Private to "aumenta": -. Private to "aumentar": r.

"aumenta" · 7 letters · shape VVCVCCV  ·  "aumentar" · 8 letters · shape VVCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • aumentaamuenta · auemnta · aumenat · aumennta · aumentta · aumetna · aummenta · aumneta
  • aumentaramuentar · auemntar · aumenatr · aumenntar · aumentarr · aumentra · aumenttar · aumetnar

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "aumenta" and "aumentar" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “aumenta” sits inside “aumentar”, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "aumenta" or "aumentar" show up more?
"aumentar" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,560 in our Portuguese list, against #2,990 for "aumenta". 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 "aumenta" and "aumentar". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "aumenta" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "aumentar" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #70,325 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "aumenta" and "aumentar" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "amamentar vs aumentar". 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 #70,325 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