cajadovscitadoTell them apart

Quick tell: cajado is a noun, citado is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“cajado” is a noun and “citado” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#30,862
“cajado” frequency rank
#4,796
“citado” frequency rank
35658
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature cajado citado
Definition amparo de pastor, geralmente com a ponta superior em arco; bordão: que sofreu citação

Letter map: cajado vs citado

Shared letters muted; letters that set cajado and citado apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. cajado and citado follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

6 ch
cajado
6 ch
citado

Role in the sentence - cajado and citado

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: cajado is anoun and citadoanadjective. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 35658, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

cajado is recorded at frequency rank #30,862, classified as anoun. citado is at rank #4,796, tagged as anadj, pronounced /si.ˈta.du/.

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 35658, this pair ranks #31,361 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of cajado vs citado

Shared letters: acdo. Private to "cajado": j. Private to "citado": it.

"cajado" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV  ·  "citado" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • cajado ← acjado · caajdo · cajaddo · cajaod · cajdao · cajjado · ccajado · cjaado
  • citado ← ccitado · ciatdo · citaddo · citaod · citdao · cittado · ctiado · ictado

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "cajado" and "citado" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "cajado" is a noun and "citado" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "cajado" or "citado"?
"citado" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #4,796 in our Portuguese list, against #30,862 for "cajado". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "cajado" and "citado". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "cajado" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "citado" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #31,361 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "cajado" and "citado" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "cagão vs cajado". 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 #31,361 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