aumentavsausenteWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: aumenta is a verb, ausente is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#2,990
“aumenta” frequency rank
#9,004
“ausente” frequency rank
11994
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature aumenta ausente
Definition terceira pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo aumentar que não está presente

Letter map: aumenta vs ausente

Shared letters muted; letters that set aumenta and ausente apart highlighted. Shared run: 5. aumenta and ausente follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (VVCVCCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

7 ch
aumenta
7 ch
ausente

Part-of-speech tell for aumenta / ausente

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: aumenta is averb and ausenteanadjective. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 11994, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

aumenta is recorded at frequency rank #2,990, classified as averb. ausente is at rank #9,004, tagged as anadj, pronounced /aw.ˈzẽ.tɨ/.

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 11994, this pair ranks #60,719 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of aumenta vs ausente

Shared letters: aentu. Private to "aumenta": m. Private to "ausente": s.

"aumenta" · 7 letters · shape VVCVCCV  ·  "ausente" · 7 letters · shape VVCVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • aumenta ← amuenta · auemnta · aumenat · aumennta · aumentta · aumetna · aummenta · aumneta
  • ausente ← asuente · auesnte · ausenet · ausennte · ausentte · ausetne · ausnete · aussente

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "aumenta" and "ausente" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "aumenta" is a verb and "ausente" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "aumenta" vs "ausente" - which ranks higher?
"aumenta" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,990 in our Portuguese list, against #9,004 for "ausente". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "aumenta" and "ausente".

  • Full dictionary entry for "aumenta" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "ausente" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #60,719 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "aumenta" and "ausente" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "assente vs ausente". 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 #60,719 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