concavscontarConfusable pair

Quick tell: conca is a noun, contar is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“conca” is a noun and “contar” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#45,765
“conca” frequency rank
#740
“contar” frequency rank
46505
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature conca contar
Definition recipiente grande de barro enumerar os elementos de uma série

Letter map: conca vs contar

Shared letters muted; letters that set conca and contar apart highlighted. Shared run: 4.

5 ch
conca
6 ch
contar

Part-of-speech tell for conca / contar

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: conca is anoun and contaraverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 46505, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

conca is recorded at frequency rank #45,765, classified as anoun. contar is at rank #740, tagged as averb, pronounced /kõ.ˈtaɾ/.

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 46505, this pair ranks #18,789 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of conca vs contar

Shared letters: acno. Private to "conca": -. Private to "contar": rt.

"conca" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "contar" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • concacconca · cnoca · cocna · conac · concca · connca · ocnca
  • contarccontar · cnotar · conatr · conntar · contarr · conttar · cotnar · ocntar

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "conca" and "contar" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "conca" is a noun and "contar" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "conca" vs "contar" - which ranks higher?
"contar" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #740 in our Portuguese list, against #45,765 for "conca". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Pair "conca" vs "contar" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "conca" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "contar" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #18,789 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "conca" and "contar" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "conca vs copta". 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 #18,789 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