exaustãovsexaustoConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#17,506
“exaustão” frequency rank
#19,989
“exausto” frequency rank
37495
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature exaustão exausto
Definition ato ou efeito de exaustar(-se) que se exaustou

Letter map: exaustão vs exausto

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

8 ch
exaustão
7 ch
exausto

Grammar separator: exaustão vs exausto

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: exaustão is anoun and exaustoanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 37495, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

exaustão is recorded at frequency rank #17,506, classified as anoun, pronounced /i.zawʃ.ˈtɐ̃w̃/. exausto is at rank #19,989, 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 37495, this pair ranks #29,117 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of exaustão vs exausto

Shared letters: aeostux. Private to "exaustão": ã. Private to "exausto": -.

"exaustão" · 8 letters · shape VCVVCCVV  ·  "exausto" · 7 letters · shape VCVVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • exausto ← eaxusto · exasuto · exausot · exaussto · exaustto · exautso · exuasto · exxausto

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "exaustão" and "exausto" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "exaustão" is a noun and "exausto" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "exaustão" vs "exausto" - which ranks higher?
"exaustão" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #17,506 in our Portuguese list, against #19,989 for "exausto". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "exaustão" and "exausto". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "exaustão" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "exausto" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #29,117 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "exaustão" and "exausto" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "exaustivo vs exausto". 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 #29,117 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