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Which to use

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

#8,591
“condado” frequency rank
#1,160
“contato” frequency rank
9751
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature condado contato
Definition dignidade de conde o fato de contactar

Letter map: condado vs contato

Shared letters muted; letters that set condado and contato apart highlighted. Shared run: 5. condado and contato follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

7 ch
condado
7 ch
contato

Pair insight - condado / contato

condado and contato 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 9751, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

condado is recorded at frequency rank #8,591, classified as anoun, pronounced /kõ.ˈda.du/. contato is at rank #1,160, tagged as anoun.

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 9751, this pair ranks #63,560 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of condado vs contato

Shared letters: acno. Private to "condado": d. Private to "contato": t.

"condado" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCV  ·  "contato" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • condado ← ccondado · cnodado · codnado · conaddo · condaddo · condaod · conddado · conddao
  • contato ← ccontato · cnotato · conatto · conntato · contaot · contatto · conttao · conttato

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "condado" and "contato" mean the same thing in a sentence?
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.
Which is more common, "condado" or "contato"?
"contato" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,160 in our Portuguese list, against #8,591 for "condado". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "condado" and "contato". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "condado" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "contato" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #63,560 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "condado" and "contato" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "condado vs conduto". 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 #63,560 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