Which to use
“confirmado” is an adjective and “confirmar” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #4,801
- “confirmado” frequency rank
- #4,713
- “confirmar” frequency rank
- 9514
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | confirmado | confirmar |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | certo, firme, seguro | certificar |
Letter map: confirmado vs confirmar
Shared letters muted; letters that set confirmado and confirmar apart highlighted. Shared run: 8. confirmado runs 10 letters (CVCCVCCVCV) against confirmar's 9 (CVCCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Role in the sentence - confirmado and confirmar
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: confirmado is anadjective and confirmaraverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 9514, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
confirmado is recorded at frequency rank #4,801, classified as anadj. confirmar is at rank #4,713, tagged as averb, pronounced /kõ.fiɾ.ˈmaɾ/.
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 9514, this pair ranks #63,884 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of confirmado vs confirmar
Shared letters: acfimnor. Private to "confirmado": d. Private to "confirmar": -.
"confirmado" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCCVCV · "confirmar" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- confirmado ← cconfirmado · cnofirmado · cofnirmado · conffirmado · confimrado · confiramdo · confirmaddo · confirmaod
- confirmar ← cconfirmar · cnofirmar · cofnirmar · conffirmar · confimrar · confiramr · confirmarr · confirmmar
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "confirmado" and "confirmar" be used interchangeably?
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "confirmado" or "confirmar" show up more?
Useful next steps
Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "confirmado" and "confirmar".
- Full dictionary entry for "confirmado" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "confirmar" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #63,884 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "confirmado" and "confirmar" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "confirmar vs confiscar". 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 #63,884 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.