exoneraçãovsexoneradoWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#20,878
“exoneração” frequency rank
#29,359
“exonerado” frequency rank
50237
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature exoneração exonerado
Definition ato de exonerar que foi alvo de exoneração

Letter map: exoneração vs exonerado

Shared letters muted; letters that set exoneração and exonerado apart highlighted. Shared run: 8. exoneração runs 10 letters (VCVCVCVCVV) against exonerado's 9 (VCVCVCVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

10 ch
exoneração
9 ch
exonerado

Part-of-speech tell for exoneração / exonerado

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: exoneração is anoun and exoneradoanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 50237, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

exoneração is recorded at frequency rank #20,878, classified as anoun, pronounced /i.zu.nɨ.ɾɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/. exonerado is at rank #29,359, 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 50237, this pair ranks #14,740 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of exoneração vs exonerado

Shared letters: aenorx. Private to "exoneração": ãç. Private to "exonerado": d.

"exoneração" · 10 letters · shape VCVCVCVCVV  ·  "exonerado" · 9 letters · shape VCVCVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • exonerado ← eoxnerado · exnoerado · exoenrado · exoneardo · exoneraddo · exoneraod · exonerdao · exonerrado

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "exoneração" and "exonerado" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "exoneração" is a noun and "exonerado" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "exoneração" or "exonerado"?
"exoneração" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #20,878 in our Portuguese list, against #29,359 for "exonerado". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "exoneração" and "exonerado".

  • Full dictionary entry for "exoneração" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "exonerado" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #14,740 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "exoneração" and "exonerado" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "exonerado vs exonerar". 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 #14,740 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