condicionadovscondicionarTell them apart

Quick tell: condicionado is a adjective, condicionar is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“condicionado” is an adjective and “condicionar” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#7,261
“condicionado” frequency rank
#37,713
“condicionar” frequency rank
44974
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature condicionado condicionar
Definition que está sujeito a uma condição tornar dependente de condição

Letter map: condicionado vs condicionar

Shared letters muted; letters that set condicionado and condicionar apart highlighted. Shared run: 10. condicionado runs 12 letters (CVCCVCVVCVCV) against condicionar's 11 (CVCCVCVVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

12 ch
condicionado
11 ch
condicionar

Role in the sentence - condicionado and condicionar

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: condicionado is anadjective and condicionaraverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 44974, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

condicionado is recorded at frequency rank #7,261, classified as anadj. condicionar is at rank #37,713, tagged as averb, pronounced /kõ.di.sju.ˈnaɾ/.

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 44974, this pair ranks #20,455 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of condicionado vs condicionar

Shared letters: acdino. Private to "condicionado": -. Private to "condicionar": r.

"condicionado" · 12 letters · shape CVCCVCVVCVCV  ·  "condicionar" · 11 letters · shape CVCCVCVVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • condicionado ← ccondicionado · cnodicionado · codnicionado · condciionado · conddicionado · condiccionado · condicinoado · condicioando
  • condicionar ← ccondicionar · cnodicionar · codnicionar · condciionar · conddicionar · condiccionar · condicinoar · condicioanr

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "condicionado" for "condicionar" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "condicionado" is an adjective and "condicionar" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "condicionado" or "condicionar" show up more?
"condicionado" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #7,261 in our Portuguese list, against #37,713 for "condicionar". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "condicionado" and "condicionar".

  • Full dictionary entry for "condicionado" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "condicionar" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #20,455 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • 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 #20,455 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