Which to use
“excitação” is a noun and “excitado” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #13,293
- “excitação” frequency rank
- #24,319
- “excitado” frequency rank
- 37612
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | excitação | excitado |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | ação ou efeito de excitar | que se excitou, que sofreu excitação |
Letter map: excitação vs excitado
Shared letters muted; letters that set excitação and excitado apart highlighted. Shared run: 7. excitação runs 9 letters (VCCVCVCVV) against excitado's 8 (VCCVCVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Role in the sentence - excitação and excitado
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: excitação is anoun and excitadoanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 37612, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
excitação is recorded at frequency rank #13,293, classified as anoun. excitado is at rank #24,319, tagged as anadj, pronounced /ɐjʃ.si.ˈta.du/.
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 37612, this pair ranks #28,956 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of excitação vs excitado
Shared letters: aceiotx. Private to "excitação": ãç. Private to "excitado": d.
"excitação" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCVCVV · "excitado" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
- excitado ← ecxitado · exccitado · exciatdo · excitaddo · excitaod · excitdao · excittado · exctiado
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "excitação" and "excitado" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "excitação" or "excitado" show up more?
What to do next
Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "excitação" and "excitado".
- Full dictionary entry for "excitação" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "excitado" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #28,956 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "excitação" and "excitado" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "excitado vs excitar". 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 #28,956 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.