causavscausadoWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: causa is a noun, causado is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“causa” is a noun and “causado” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#340
“causa” frequency rank
#5,285
“causado” frequency rank
5625
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature causa causado
Definition aquilo ou aquele que ocasiona um acontecimento ou faz que uma coisa exista particípio do verbo causar

Letter map: causa vs causado

Shared letters muted; letters that set causa and causado apart highlighted. Shared run: 5.

5 ch
causa
7 ch
causado

Part-of-speech tell for causa / causado

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: causa is anoun and causadoaverb. On the page they differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “causa” sits inside “causado”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 5625, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

causa is recorded at frequency rank #340, classified as anoun, pronounced /ˈkaw.zɐ/. causado is at rank #5,285, 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 5625, this pair ranks #68,954 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of causa vs causado

Shared letters: acsu. Private to "causa": -. Private to "causado": do.

"causa" · 5 letters · shape CVVCV  ·  "causado" · 7 letters · shape CVVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • causaacusa · casua · cauas · caussa · ccausa · cuasa
  • causadoacusado · casuado · cauasdo · causaddo · causaod · causdao · caussado · ccausado

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "causa" and "causado" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "causa" is a noun and "causado" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "causa" or "causado"?
"causa" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #340 in our Portuguese list, against #5,285 for "causado". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

You've compared "causa" and "causado". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "causa" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "causado" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #68,954 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "causa" and "causado" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "caução vs causado". 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 #68,954 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