Which to use
“citação” is a noun and “citado” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #7,882
- “citação” frequency rank
- #4,796
- “citado” frequency rank
- 12678
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | citação | citado |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | referência de palavras de outra pessoa | que sofreu citação |
Letter map: citação vs citado
Shared letters muted; letters that set citação and citado apart highlighted. Shared run: 5. citação runs 7 letters (CVCVCVV) against citado's 6 (CVCVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Part-of-speech tell for citação / citado
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: citação is anoun and citadoanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 12678, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
citação is recorded at frequency rank #7,882, 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 12678, this pair ranks #59,839 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of citação vs citado
Shared letters: aciot. Private to "citação": ãç. Private to "citado": d.
"citação" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVV · "citado" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
- citado ← ccitado · ciatdo · citaddo · citaod · citdao · cittado · ctiado · ictado
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "citação" and "citado" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "citação" vs "citado" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
You've compared "citação" and "citado". Here's where to go from here.
- Full dictionary entry for "citação" 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 #59,839 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "citação" and "citado" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "ciao vs citado". 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 #59,839 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.