Which to use
“devastação” is a noun and “devastado” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #20,568
- “devastação” frequency rank
- #24,608
- “devastado” frequency rank
- 45176
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | devastação | devastado |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | destruição | destruído |
Letter map: devastação vs devastado
Shared letters muted; letters that set devastação and devastado apart highlighted. Shared run: 8.
Part-of-speech tell for devastação / devastado
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: devastação is anoun and devastadoanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 45176, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
devastação is recorded at frequency rank #20,568, classified as anoun, pronounced /dɨ.vɐʃ.tɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/. devastado is at rank #24,608, 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 45176, this pair ranks #20,236 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of devastação vs devastado
Shared letters: adeostv. Private to "devastação": ãç. Private to "devastado": -.
"devastação" · 10 letters · shape CVCVCCVCVV · "devastado" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
- devastado ← ddevastado · deavstado · devasatdo · devasstado · devastaddo · devastaod · devastdao · devasttado
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "devastação" and "devastado" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "devastação" or "devastado" show up more?
What to do next
Pair "devastação" vs "devastado" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.
- Full dictionary entry for "devastação" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "devastado" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #20,236 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "devastação" and "devastado" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "devastado vs devastar". 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 #20,236 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.