coordenadavscoordenadoTell them apart

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

Which to use

“coordenada” is a noun and “coordenado” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#15,069
“coordenada” frequency rank
#18,549
“coordenado” frequency rank
33618
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature coordenada coordenado
Definition cada componente de um conjunto de números que indica a localização exata de um ponto numa reta, superfície ou espaço disposto segundo certos métodos ou preceitos; organizado

Letter map: coordenada vs coordenado

Shared letters muted; letters that set coordenada and coordenado apart highlighted. Shared run: 9. coordenada and coordenado follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVVCCVCVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

10 ch
coordenada
10 ch
coordenado

Part-of-speech tell for coordenada / coordenado

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: coordenada is anoun and coordenadoanadjective. On the page they differ by a single letter - a in “coordenada” becomes o in “coordenado”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 33618, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

coordenada is recorded at frequency rank #15,069, classified as anoun. coordenado is at rank #18,549, tagged as anadj, pronounced /kwuɾ.dɨ.ˈnɐ.du/.

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 33618, this pair ranks #33,841 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of coordenada vs coordenado

Shared letters: acdenor. Private to "coordenada": -. Private to "coordenado": -.

"coordenada" · 10 letters · shape CVVCCVCVCV  ·  "coordenado" · 10 letters · shape CVVCCVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • coordenada ← ccoordenada · coodrenada · coorddenada · coordeanda · coordenaad · coordenadda · coordendaa · coordennada
  • coordenado ← ccoordenado · coodrenado · coorddenado · coordeando · coordenaddo · coordenaod · coordendao · coordennado

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "coordenada" for "coordenado" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "coordenada" is a noun and "coordenado" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "coordenada" or "coordenado" show up more?
"coordenada" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #15,069 in our Portuguese list, against #18,549 for "coordenado". 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 "coordenada" and "coordenado".

  • Full dictionary entry for "coordenada" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "coordenado" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #33,841 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "coordenada" and "coordenado" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "coordenado vs coordenar". 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 #33,841 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