claravscuraTell them apart

Which to use

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

#1,701
“clara” frequency rank
#2,771
“cura” frequency rank
4472
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature clara cura
Definition porção albuminosa do ovo ato ou efeito de curar

Letter map: clara vs cura

Shared letters muted; letters that set clara and cura apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

5 ch
clara
4 ch
cura

Pair insight - clara / cura

clara and cura 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 differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 4472, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

clara is recorded at frequency rank #1,701, classified as anoun. cura is at rank #2,771, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˈku.ɾɐ/.

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 4472, this pair ranks #70,416 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of clara vs cura

Shared letters: acr. Private to "clara": l. Private to "cura": u.

"clara" · 5 letters · shape CCVCV  ·  "cura" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • claracalra · cclara · claar · clarra · cllara · clraa · lcara
  • curaccura · crua · cuar · curra · ucra

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "clara" for "cura" ever safe?
No. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "clara" or "cura" show up more?
"clara" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,701 in our Portuguese list, against #2,771 for "cura". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "clara" and "cura". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "clara" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "cura" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #70,416 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "clara" and "cura" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "cerda vs cura". 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 #70,416 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