fake vs fazer, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#12,887
“fake” frequency rank: #64
“fazer” frequency rank: 12951
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	fake	fazer
Definition	ver falso	dar existência ou forma a

Letter map: fake vs fazer

Shared letters muted; letters that set fake and fazer apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. fake runs 4 letters (CVCV) against fazer's 5 (CVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch

fake

5 ch

fazer

Grammar separator: fake vs fazer

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: fake is anadjective and fazeraverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 12951, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

fake is recorded at frequency rank #12,887, classified as anadj. fazer is at rank #64, tagged as averb.

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 12951, this pair ranks #59,509 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of fake vs fazer

Shared letters: aef. Private to "fake": k. Private to "fazer": rz.

"fake" · 4 letters · shape CVCV · "fazer" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

fake ← afke · faek · fakke · ffake · fkae
fazer ← afzer · faezr · fazerr · fazre · fazzer · ffazer · fzaer

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "fake" and "fazer" be used interchangeably?

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

Which is more common, "fake" or "fazer"?

"fazer" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #64 in our Portuguese list, against #12,887 for "fake". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

You've compared "fake" and "fazer". Here's where to go from here.

Full dictionary entry for "fake" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "fazer" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #59,509 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"fake" and "fazer" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "fake vs fava". 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 #59,509 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.