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“escolhido” and “escondido” are a confusable Portuguese pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#3,005
“escolhido” frequency rank
#5,629
“escondido” frequency rank
8634
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature escolhido escondido
Definition preferido oculto, fora do olhar

Letter map: escolhido vs escondido

Shared letters muted; letters that set escolhido and escondido apart highlighted. Shared run: 7. escolhido and escondido follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (VCCVCCVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

9 ch
escolhido
9 ch
escondido

Spelling & dictionary notes on escolhido vs escondido

escolhido and escondido are indexed as a confusable Portuguese pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 8634, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

escolhido is recorded at frequency rank #3,005, classified as anadj. escondido is at rank #5,629, 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 8634, this pair ranks #65,077 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of escolhido vs escondido

Shared letters: cdeios. Private to "escolhido": hl. Private to "escondido": n.

"escolhido" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCCVCV  ·  "escondido" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • escolhido ← ecsolhido · esccolhido · esclohido · escohlido · escolhdio · escolhhido · escolhiddo · escolhiod
  • escondido ← ecsondido · esccondido · escnodido · escodnido · esconddido · esconddio · escondiddo · escondiod

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "escolhido" and "escondido" be used interchangeably?
No. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Which is more common, "escolhido" or "escondido"?
"escolhido" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,005 in our Portuguese list, against #5,629 for "escondido". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "escolhido" and "escondido".

  • Full dictionary entry for "escolhido" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "escondido" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #65,077 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "escolhido" and "escondido" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "escolhido vs esculpido". 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 #65,077 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