confirmaçãovsconfirmadoConfusable pair

Quick tell: confirmação is a noun, confirmado is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

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.

11 ch
confirmação
10 ch
confirmado

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?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "confirmação" is a noun and "confirmado" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "confirmação" or "confirmado"?
"confirmado" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #4,801 in our Portuguese list, against #5,928 for "confirmação". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list