Which to use
“confirmação” is a noun and “confirmado” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #5,928
- “confirmação” frequency rank
- #4,801
- “confirmado” frequency rank
- 10729
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | confirmação | confirmado |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | ato ou efeito de confirmar | certo, firme, seguro |
Letter map: confirmação vs confirmado
Shared letters muted; letters that set confirmação and confirmado apart highlighted. Shared run: 9. confirmação runs 11 letters (CVCCVCCVCVV) against confirmado's 10 (CVCCVCCVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Grammar separator: confirmação vs confirmado
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: confirmação is anoun and confirmadoanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 10729, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
confirmação is recorded at frequency rank #5,928, classified as anoun, pronounced /kõ.fɪɾ.mɐ.ˈsãw/. confirmado is at rank #4,801, tagged as anadj.
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 10729, this pair ranks #62,296 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of confirmação vs confirmado
Shared letters: acfimnor. Private to "confirmação": ãç. Private to "confirmado": d.
"confirmação" · 11 letters · shape CVCCVCCVCVV · "confirmado" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCCVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
- confirmado ← cconfirmado · cnofirmado · cofnirmado · conffirmado · confimrado · confiramdo · confirmaddo · confirmaod
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "confirmação" and "confirmado" be used interchangeably?
Which is more common, "confirmação" or "confirmado"?
What to do next
You've compared "confirmação" and "confirmado". Here's where to go from here.
- Full dictionary entry for "confirmação" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "confirmado" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #62,296 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "confirmação" and "confirmado" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "confiado vs confirmado". 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 #62,296 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.