comida vs cozido, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“comida” is a noun and “cozido” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#865
“comida” frequency rank: #15,073
“cozido” frequency rank: 15938
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	comida	cozido
Definition	o que serve para comer	preparado pela cozedura

Where the spellings diverge

Shared letters are muted; the letters that actually set comida and cozido apart are highlighted. They share 4 letters in sequence, which is exactly why the eye skips the difference.

6 ch

comida

6 ch

cozido

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: comida is /koˈmi.dɐ/ while cozido is /ku.ˈzi.du/. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 15938, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

comida is recorded at frequency rank #865, classified as anoun, pronounced /koˈmi.dɐ/. cozido is at rank #15,073, tagged as anadj, pronounced /ku.ˈzi.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 15938, this pair ranks #55,772 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of comida vs cozido

Shared letters: cdio. Private to "comida": am. Private to "cozido": z.

"comida" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV · "cozido" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

comida ← ccomida · cmoida · coimda · comdia · comiad · comidda · commida · ocmida
cozido ← ccozido · coizdo · cozdio · coziddo · coziod · cozzido · czoido · oczido

Frequency comparison

comida#865

cozido#15,073

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "comida" and "cozido" be used interchangeably?

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

Which is more common, "comida" or "cozido"?

"comida" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #865 in our Portuguese list, against #15,073 for "cozido". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Remembering comida vs cozido

The fastest way to pick the right one every time.

Check the role first: if you need a noun, it's “comida”; for an adjective, it's “cozido”.
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