chegado vs chegar, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#4,379
“chegado” frequency rank: #390
“chegar” frequency rank: 4769
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	chegado	chegar
Definition	próximo	pôr em contato

Where the spellings diverge

Shared letters are muted; the letters that actually set chegado and chegar apart are highlighted. They share 5 letters in sequence, which is exactly why the eye skips the difference.

7 ch

chegado

6 ch

chegar

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: chegado is /ʃɨ.ˈɡa.du/ while chegar is /ʃɨ.ˈɡaɾ/. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (adjective vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 4769, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

chegado is recorded at frequency rank #4,379, classified as anadj, pronounced /ʃɨ.ˈɡa.du/. chegar is at rank #390, tagged as averb, pronounced /ʃɨ.ˈɡaɾ/.

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 4769, this pair ranks #70,023 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of chegado vs chegar

Shared letters: acegh. Private to "chegado": do. Private to "chegar": r.

"chegado" · 7 letters · shape CCVCVCV · "chegar" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

chegado ← cchegado · cehgado · cheagdo · chegaddo · chegaod · chegdao · cheggado · chgeado
chegar ← cchegar · cehgar · cheagr · chegarr · cheggar · chegra · chgear · chhegar

Frequency comparison

chegado#4,379

chegar#390

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "chegado" and "chegar" be used interchangeably?

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

Which is more common, "chegado" or "chegar"?

"chegar" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #390 in our Portuguese list, against #4,379 for "chegado". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Remembering chegado vs chegar

The fastest way to pick the right one every time.

Check the role first: if you need an adjective, it's “chegado”; for a verb, it's “chegar”.
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