excitado vs excitar, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“excitado” is an adjective and “excitar” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#24,319
“excitado” frequency rank: #40,124
“excitar” frequency rank: 64443
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	excitado	excitar
Definition	que se excitou, que sofreu excitação	provocar excitação em

Where the spellings diverge

Shared letters are muted; the letters that actually set excitado and excitar apart are highlighted. They share 6 letters in sequence, which is exactly why the eye skips the difference.

8 ch

excitado

7 ch

excitar

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: excitado is /ɐjʃ.si.ˈta.du/ while excitar is /ɐjʃ.si.ˈtaɾ/. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (adjective vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 64443, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

excitado is recorded at frequency rank #24,319, classified as anadj, pronounced /ɐjʃ.si.ˈta.du/. excitar is at rank #40,124, tagged as averb, pronounced /ɐjʃ.si.ˈtaɾ/.

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 64443, this pair ranks #5,775 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of excitado vs excitar

Shared letters: aceitx. Private to "excitado": do. Private to "excitar": r.

"excitado" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCVCV · "excitar" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

excitado ← ecxitado · exccitado · exciatdo · excitaddo · excitaod · excitdao · excittado · exctiado
excitar ← ecxitar · exccitar · exciatr · excitarr · excitra · excittar · exctiar · exictar

Frequency comparison

excitado#24,319

excitar#40,124

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "excitado" and "excitar" be used interchangeably?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "excitado" is an adjective and "excitar" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Which is more common, "excitado" or "excitar"?

"excitado" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #24,319 in our Portuguese list, against #40,124 for "excitar". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Remembering excitado vs excitar

The fastest way to pick the right one every time.

Check the role first: if you need an adjective, it's “excitado”; for a verb, it's “excitar”.
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