decade vs desde, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“decade” is a noun and “desde” is a preposition - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#42,866
“decade” frequency rank: #155
“desde” frequency rank: 43021
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	decade	desde
Definition	década	a começar de; a partir de

Letter map: decade vs desde

Shared letters muted; letters that set decade and desde apart highlighted. Shared run: 4.

6 ch

decade

5 ch

desde

Part-of-speech tell for decade / desde

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: decade is anoun and desdeapreposition. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 43021, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

decade is recorded at frequency rank #42,866, classified as anoun. desde is at rank #155, tagged as aprep, pronounced /ˈdeʒ.dɨ/.

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 43021, this pair ranks #22,660 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of decade vs desde

Shared letters: de. Private to "decade": ac. Private to "desde": s.

"decade" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV · "desde" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

decade ← dceade · ddecade · deacde · decadde · decaed · deccade · decdae · edcade
desde ← ddesde · dedse · desdde · desed · dessde · dsede · edsde

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "decade" and "desde" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "decade" is a noun and "desde" a preposition, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

In ordinary Portuguese text, does "decade" or "desde" show up more?

"desde" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #155 in our Portuguese list, against #42,866 for "decade". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

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Full dictionary entry for "decade" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "desde" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #22,660 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"decade" and "desde" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "decade vs declare". 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 #22,660 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.