claravsclashTell them apart

Which to use

“clara” and “clash” are a confusable Portuguese pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#1,701
“clara” frequency rank
#20,819
“clash” frequency rank
22520
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature clara clash
Definition porção albuminosa do ovo estrondo

Letter map: clara vs clash

Shared letters muted; letters that set clara and clash apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. clara (CCVCV) and clash (CCVCC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

5 ch
clara
5 ch
clash

Spelling & dictionary notes on clara vs clash

clara and clash are indexed as a confusable Portuguese pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 22520, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

clara is recorded at frequency rank #1,701, classified as anoun. clash is at rank #20,819, tagged as anoun, pronounced /klæʃ/.

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 22520, this pair ranks #47,525 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of clara vs clash

Shared letters: acl. Private to "clara": r. Private to "clash": hs.

"clara" · 5 letters · shape CCVCV  ·  "clash" · 5 letters · shape CCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • clara ← calra · cclara · claar · clarra · cllara · clraa · lcara
  • clash ← calsh · cclash · clahs · clashh · classh · cllash · clsah · lcash

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "clara" for "clash" ever safe?
No. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Frequency check: "clara" vs "clash" - which ranks higher?
"clara" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,701 in our Portuguese list, against #20,819 for "clash". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "clara" and "clash".

  • Full dictionary entry for "clara" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "clash" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #47,525 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "clara" and "clash" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "clair vs clash". 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 #47,525 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