condutovscontatoTell them apart

Which to use

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

#38,190
“conduto” frequency rank
#1,160
“contato” frequency rank
39350
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature conduto contato
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Letter map: conduto vs contato

Shared letters muted; letters that set conduto and contato apart highlighted. Shared run: 5.

7 ch
conduto
7 ch
contato

Pair insight - conduto / contato

conduto 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 39350, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

conduto is recorded at frequency rank #38,190, classified as anoun, pronounced /kõ.ˈdu.tu/. 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 39350, this pair ranks #26,925 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of conduto vs contato

Shared letters: cnot. Private to "conduto": du. Private to "contato": a.

"conduto" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCV  ·  "contato" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • condutocconduto · cnoduto · codnuto · condduto · condtuo · conduot · condutto · connduto
  • contatoccontato · cnotato · conatto · conntato · contaot · contatto · conttao · conttato

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "conduto" 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.
Frequency check: "conduto" vs "contato" - which ranks higher?
"contato" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,160 in our Portuguese list, against #38,190 for "conduto". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Pair "conduto" vs "contato" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "conduto" 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 #26,925 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "conduto" and "contato" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "conduto vs conluio". 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 #26,925 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