depostovsdesportoWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: deposto is a adjective, desporto is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#18,306
“deposto” frequency rank
#6,408
“desporto” frequency rank
24714
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature deposto desporto
Definition que foi alvo de deposição (abdicação, renúncia, demissão) prática de atividade física com fins competitivos, entre indivíduos ou equipes, e sujeita a regras pré-estabelecidas

Letter map: deposto vs desporto

Shared letters muted; letters that set deposto and desporto apart highlighted. Shared run: 6. deposto runs 7 letters (CVCVCCV) against desporto's 8 (CVCCVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
deposto
8 ch
desporto

Role in the sentence - deposto and desporto

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: deposto is anadjective and desportoanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 24714, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

deposto is recorded at frequency rank #18,306, classified as anadj. desporto is at rank #6,408, tagged as anoun, pronounced /dɨʃ.ˈpoɾ.tu/.

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 24714, this pair ranks #44,827 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of deposto vs desporto

Shared letters: deopst. Private to "deposto": -. Private to "desporto": r.

"deposto" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCCV  ·  "desporto" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • deposto ← ddeposto · deopsto · deposot · depossto · depostto · depotso · depposto · depsoto
  • desporto ← ddesporto · depsorto · desoprto · desporot · desporrto · desportto · despotro · despporto

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "deposto" and "desporto" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "deposto" is an adjective and "desporto" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "deposto" vs "desporto" - which ranks higher?
"desporto" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #6,408 in our Portuguese list, against #18,306 for "deposto". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pair "deposto" vs "desporto" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "deposto" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "desporto" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #44,827 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "deposto" and "desporto" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "desperto vs desporto". 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 #44,827 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