fartarvsfartoWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: fartar is a verb, farto is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#48,928
“fartar” frequency rank
#10,718
“farto” frequency rank
59646
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature fartar farto
Definition saciar a fome ou a sede a repleto, cheio

Letter map: fartar vs farto

Shared letters muted; letters that set fartar and farto apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. fartar runs 6 letters (CVCCVC) against farto's 5 (CVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
fartar
5 ch
farto

Role in the sentence - fartar and farto

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: fartar is averb and fartoanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 59646, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

fartar is recorded at frequency rank #48,928, classified as averb, pronounced /fɐɾ.ˈtaɾ/. farto is at rank #10,718, 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 59646, this pair ranks #8,079 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of fartar vs farto

Shared letters: afrt. Private to "fartar": -. Private to "farto": o.

"fartar" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC  ·  "farto" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • fartarafrtar · faratr · farrtar · fartarr · fartra · farttar · fatrar · ffartar
  • fartoafrto · farot · farrto · fartto · ffarto · frato

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "fartar" and "farto" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "fartar" is a verb and "farto" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "fartar" or "farto" show up more?
"farto" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #10,718 in our Portuguese list, against #48,928 for "fartar". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "fartar" and "farto". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "fartar" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "farto" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #8,079 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "fartar" and "farto" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "fartar vs furtar". 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 #8,079 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